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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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