Astride in a sentence

He walks past the motionless Wights and comes across the Night King and the White Walkers sitting astride their dead horses.

And in Anu Malik’s parody Tu woh tu hai (Beqabu, 1996) with Sanjay Kapoor, astride a horse, in red cowboy hat and shirt.

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The bulk of American carriers, submarines and surface vessels would concentrate in the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, fighting directly against China’s A2/AD system and sitting astride China’s maritime transit lanes.

In one poster, an illustrated Seahawk wearing skinny pants and lace-up high-tops stands astride a Baltimore Raven midflight.

It is hard to imagine what Captain Cook would make of landlubbers astride bikes on narrow-gauge railway lines.

The latest flooding has prompted residents and state officials to revive calls for a massive federal hydraulic pumping project near the metal gates that now sit astride the Steele Bayou.

The farm sits astride the East Tennessee quilt trail and displays a quilt square she painted, patterned after a quilt her grandmother stitched, mounted on the tobacco barn.

Two people — the player and a mahout, or trainer, sit astride each elephant.

But the Philippines sit astride the typhoon belt, and it suffers an annual onslaught of dangerous storms from July through October.

By the next day they would have been astride the line of retreat and 10th Army, with all Kesselring's reserves committed to them, would have been trapped.

It is in a strategic location astride or along major sea lanes from Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean.

Loki tells Freyja to be silent, calls her a malicious witch, and conjures a scenario where Freyja was once astride her brother when all of the gods, laughing, surprised the two.

Marek, p.28 Prior to the magnificent banquet which followed the wedding ceremony, Isabella rode through the main streets of Ferrara astride a horse draped in gems and gold.

The British tanks would then advance to Skinflint, astride the north–south Rahman Track deep in the Axis defensive system, to challenge the Axis armour.

The long meadow astride the Colnbrook leading down to the river is known to this day as "Bloody Meadow".

The remaining three visions of the first part introduce the famous image of a human being standing astride the spheres that make up the universe, and detail the intricate relationships between the human as microcosm and the universe as macrocosm.

To the south several more German attacks from their position astride the road were stopped but the road was still cut.