(adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eleven patients with stones overlying the sacro-iliac joint were treated in the prone position, while 56 patients with stones distal to the sacro-iliac joint, were treated in the saddle (astride) position.
(2) The results are in agreement with data on visual callosal connections in animals and confirm previous psychophysical findings (Berardi & Fiorentini, 1987) indicating the particular properties of the interhemispheric cross-talk between symmetric regions of the visual field astride the vertical meridian in man.
(3) Segmental ganglia of the ventral nerve cord arise as laterally thickened sheets of tissue lying astride the ventral midline.
(4) After all, “how can you expect a little child whose mother is an angel and whose father is a Cannibal King and who has spent her life sailing the seas to tell the truth always?” Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking.
(5) The caudal lobe of liver is an independent sector astride the right and left liver regions.
(6) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
(7) Serial histologic sectioning of the specialized atrioventricular junctional area revealed that the final bifurcation of the branching bundle came astride the septum in the inferior angle of the defect.
(8) Coagulative denaturation of contractile proteins follows, presenting as irregular, amorphous degeneration stripes astride irreversibly damaged myocells.
(9) Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmind Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking is the invention of Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren.
(10) Updated at 10.13am BST 10.07am BST To those of you astride a high moral horse ...
(11) The Buddh circuit has been built as a flagship development for a bigger project: a new town with a population of several hundred thousand, which will have malls, sports and education facilities, and will sit astride a new motorway linking it to Delhi, 32km away, and Agra, 190km away.
(12) in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.
(13) Roy Wood told Today that even in their heyday, Christmas songs had a touch of the Samuel Becketts about them – born astride the grave, they were rung out once the new year was rung in.
(14) But it wasn't only Reagan: Springsteen is so popular astride political fissures that Chris Christie, the recently elected Republican governor of his home state, New Jersey, wanted Springsteen to play at his inaugural bash.
(15) In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo he is likened to Kalle Blomkvist, Astrid Lindgren's boy detective, while Lisbeth Salander is regularly compared to her more famous creation for children, Pippi Longstocking, what with being so unconventional and super-strong.
(16) Manometry was performed with an assembly combining 13 side holes and a sleeve sensor positioned astride the pylorus.
(17) Astrid, suddenly, tells me to stop the car at the next intersection.
(18) Astrid Silva had no idea Barack Obama was going to name her in his landmark immigration speech , making her the poster child for reform, until the roomful of fellow activists in Las Vegas exploded around her.
(19) Times have changed and so - evidently - has Astrid Proll.
(20) A 560-kb region covered by a DXS56-positive YAC has been restriction-mapped and subcloned, disclosing a 187-kb MluI fragment astride the breakpoint.
Bestride
Definition:
(v. t.) To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
(v. t.) To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump has fueled talk of a rigged election in the final weeks of the campaign, but the loss of faith in America’s political system has been brewing for years and bestrides both sides of the political system.
(2) From Standard Oil at the turn of the 20th century to IBM and General Motors in the 1970s and General Electric in the 1990s, the US has always produced behemoth corporations that bestride the world.
(3) But at least they will not be ridiculed as lily-livered losers unfit to wear their club's shirt or bestride their club's sidelines.
(4) Unilever, by contrast, could be a synonym for the faceless multinational, bestriding the globe, selling detergents and cleaning products.
(5) Leading the crusade against global poverty in 2012 might seem a thankless task, as austerity-racked taxpayers in the west lose sympathy with needy foreigners and China bestrides Africa brandishing its chequebook.
(6) Bestriding the Bloom canon, however, is Shakespeare.
(7) In a speech on Wednesday marking the thinktank's 10th anniversary, Maude will describe how Policy Exchange has grown from a cottage industry to a colossus bestriding the policy-making stage, providing the intellectual ballast for the party to modernise.
(8) Having risen, and moved, with football’s escalation to a business of multibillion-pound money flows and shifting centres of spending, Mendes now bestrides the game, from delivering Di María to a flapping Manchester United, to advising funds buying stakes in Portuguese players he also represents.
(9) One media company bestrides British politics – spanning television, newspapers and the internet.
(10) When London first hosted the Games in 1908, it was clear: Britain was a mighty empire that saw its natural place as bestriding the global stage, setting the sporting rules the rest of the world would follow for nearly a century and topping the medals table while we were at it.
(11) Verviers, the town where on Thursday police killed two Belgian “foreign fighters” not long back from Syria, bestrides the Dutch and German borders.