astride

IPA: ʌstrˈaɪd

Examples of "astride" in Sentences

There is a touch astride the belly that feeds unsated flesh.
And it is delivered to your door by Don Quixote astride a unicorn.
Find me reading shadows rocking astride empty words and neverhours.
Bring back the virtuous knight in his armor, astride a noble steed.
The demon-king Rawana bares his fangs and pops his eyes astride his horrific mount Wilmana.
His base sat astride the York River, including Yorktown on the south bank and Gloucester Point on the north.
By June of the next year, astride the horse of sovereignty, he had become the favorite to win the Ukrainian presidency.
Someone let loose with a blood curdling rebel yell, and a woman tore off her shirt, and climbed astride her boyfriend's shoulders, waving her arms wildly over her head.
He gave me quite a lecture on the dangers of the side-saddle, and said very earnestly that women ought to ride "astride" (at that time this was a thing _incompris_ in England).
Bianca Jagger famously wore his shoes for her entrance into Studio 54, sitting astride a white charger; the Princess of Wales was a fan; and the "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw had such a predilection for his heels that "Manolos" became a household name.