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Example sentences for: astride

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Bermuda sits astride the main whale migration route, and because the motherland and other colonies demanded (and paid well for) the oil, the local population went into the whaling business.
"Their loss of control has been jarring to our traditional media and political organizations, who had sat astride a tight monopoly over politics and news," Katz writes in Virtuous Reality . "They fought back and have been fighting ever since, complaining that these new interactive media are dangerous and destructive of public discourse.
In front of the building is a statue of the Duke of Wellington, resplendent in battle dress and cloak astride his trusty steed, Copenhagen.
A big color shot of the president greeting an exuberant crowd of young people sits athwart the NYT lead story about the Monica meeting and astride its story about his trip yesterday to the Midwest.
Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.