What's the difference between bestraddle and bestride?
Bestraddle
Definition:
(v. t.) To bestride.
Example Sentences:
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.