What's the difference between bestride and bestrode?
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.
Bestrode
Definition:
(imp.) of Bestride
() of Bestride
() imp. & p. p. of Bestride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lewis Hamilton wins third F1 world title with victory at US Grand Prix Read more He bestrode the season.
(2) It was a company that bestrode the technology world, with a market capitalisation of $556bn compared with its one-time deadly rival in personal computers, Apple, whose returning chief executive Steve Jobs was gradually nursing it back to health.
(3) Nemanja Matic bestrode midfield with mighty authority while Mohamed Salah marked his first start by scoring a goal and creating another.
(4) Dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990, after which he remained as army commander-in-chief, then senator-for-life, he bestrode the final decades of the Cold War in the region like no one else but Fidel Castro in Cuba.
(5) Earlier in the year, there had been a glimmer of hope with the arrival of the Strokes and their snappily dressed indie-rock, but the whole picture changed on 26 July, when Jack White bestrode the hallowed 100 Club stage.
(6) After starting his career with Estudiantes and San Lorenzo in his native Argentina, he joined Napoli, where his partnership with Edinson Cavani and Marek Hamsik took the club to heights unknown since Diego Maradona bestrode the San Paolo stadium.
(7) Grand elms that bestrode the Buckinghamshire countryside also fell to Dutch elm disease, muddy banks of dead trees resembled a second world war battlefield.
(8) After two decades during which it bestrode the world like a colossus, the years of uncontested US power were over.