(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.
Stride
Definition:
(v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
(v. t.) To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
(v. t.) To pass over at a step; to step over.
(v. t.) To straddle; to bestride.
(n.) The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
(2) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
(3) Since the war, huge strides have been made in Sierra Leone.
(4) He said the generations of Americans had made significant strides toward rance tolerance, but added: "It doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society.
(5) Biomechanical analysis of the crosscountry techniques has developed from rather simple 2-dimensional kinematic descriptions of diagonal stride to complex measurement of skating forces and 3-dimensional motion.
(6) However, in the past five years great strides have been made in the use of electronics and computers to assist in the performance of routine tasks for the detection and diagnosis of periodontal diseases.
(7) Any national, state, or local efforts to design and develop new CPS training programs should take into account the significant strides made by these agencies.
(8) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
(9) Most countries have made notable strides in improving and expanding the cold chain, although cold chain failures have been identified through investigation of vaccine failures.
(10) From these results, it is evident that the profession has made significant strides in building a strong scientific data base to support the value of its clinical services.
(11) Over the last year, important strides were made in improving bioprocess monitoring using NADH fluorescence, viscosity, affinity techniques, enzyme and microbial sensors, calorimetry, flow injection analysis and bioluminescence.
(12) For both males and females stride length decreased, stride rate increased, and the period of non-support was also significantly less when running on a treadmill as compared to running overground.
(13) These results suggest that stride frequency affects ventilation to varying degrees dependent upon the subject population and that the mechanisms for the hyperpnea of moderate exercise operating in each of these subject populations involve a complex interaction of many factors.
(14) Papua New Guinea has made significant strides towards establishing a capacity in health systems research.
(15) Despite that, this area of retinal pharmacology has made significant strides and, although it is a story without an ending, it has had an exciting beginning.
(16) Mind you, many more passes like that, and there may not be, for De Vrij picks up the loose ball, strides forward, and batters a shot from distance wide right of goal.
(17) The kinematic analysis revealed non-significant results for hip, knee and ankle joint angles at touchdown for the various stride rates.
(18) Maximum horizontal velocities were usually attained at takeoff into the third- or second-last stride and not exclusively during the second-last stride, as previously reported.
(19) Normal pediatric kinematics and kinetics are provided with literature references for phasic electromyography and temporal and stride variables.
(20) I was looking for poise, confidence, striding it out rather than against the watch.