Bestrides Definition

Bestrides Sentence Examples

• It bestrides the Irrawaddy.

• Several bridges cross the stream, and a lofty railway viaduct bestrides the valley.

• In art he generally appears as a little pot-bellied old man, with a snub nose and a bald head, riding on an ass and supported by satyrs; or he is depicted lying asleep on his wine-skin, which he sometimes bestrides.

• Below Bristol the valley becomes the Clifton Gorge, famous for its wooded cliffs and for the Clifton suspension bridge which bestrides it.