How to Use bestride in a Sentence

bestride

verb

• No one doubts Xi bestrides the landscape like a colossus.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• In Riyadh, Mohammed bin Salman bestrode the stage as a great modernizer.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020
• In July 2003, Howard Dean bestrode the Democratic field like a colossus.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
• With the new Gilded Age now fully in swing, we are ruled by a class of philosopher kings who bestride the business and political worlds.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• The tech sector today bestrides the U.S. economy like a colossus.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2019
• But Walmart no longer bestrides the U.S. economy, Colossus-like.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• The offices are spooky-minimalist, and a colossal statue of a little girl bestrides the campus, her eyes glassy and piercing like a nightmare doll’s.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• China and its hand-picked 5G corporate colossus, Huawei, are poised to bestride the globe with Huawei’s version of 5G technology.
  — Arthur L. Herman, National Review, 24 Sep. 2019
• Bolcom's immense skills as a songwriter bestriding the classical and popular realms are on winning display in the cabaret prelude to the show.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2017
• In the distance, bestriding the border with Tanzania, is the behemoth, snowcapped Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest free-standing mountain.
  — Mary Ann Anderson, Dallas News, 2 July 2019
• With no rule of law considerations outside those that further deep state power, the deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Aug. 2017
• Such propaganda helps domestically by boosting Kim Jong Un as a titan bestriding the world stage.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2017
• Television has changed a lot since those halcyon days when a weekly drama in which characters debated serious ideas in a fair and thoughtful manner could bestride the Nielsen universe like a colossus.
  — Stephen Carter, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• The symbol of the mace has been noted as one of the U.S. government's most important historical symbols: an eagle with its wings spread wide seated on top of a globe that bestrides a bundle of 13 rods, representative of the original 13 states.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• The alternative is to continue to bestride both systems and accept the consequence that trust—arguably the most important attribute of a communication tool like Zoom—is at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• In the nearly two decades since then, as digital design and social media have expanded the ranks of color obsessives, Pantone has become not just a company but a sensation, its brand bestriding the globe like a behemoth.
  — Bruce Falconer, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Monocle views the world as a single, utopian marketplace, linked by digital technology and first-class air travel, bestridden by compelling brands and their executives.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Republic, 27 June 2017

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024