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Answer for the clue "Be astride ", 8 letters:
straddle

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Word definitions for straddle in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a posture in which one straddles something 2 (context finance English) an investment strategy involving trade in derivatives 3 (context poker English) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds. vb. To sit ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Straddle \Strad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Straddling .] [Freq. from the root of stride.] To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel ...

Usage examples of straddle.

Baptiste had Adeem pinned against the floor, straddling him as he wrapped his hands around his neck.

We did, with Artel straddling his chair backwards the way cowboys did in movie saloons.

After an extensive tussle, punctuated by whoops, giggles and female screams, the predictable result was obtained with Avis straddling his face, Eris his hips.

This young lady managed the whole family, even a little the small beflounced sister, who, with bold pretty innocent eyes, a torrent of fair silky hair, a crimson fez, such as is worn by male Turks, very much askew on top of it, and a way of galloping and straddling about the ship in any company she could pick up--she had long thin legs, very short skirts and stockings of every tint-- was going home, in elegant French clothes, to resume an interrupted education.

Many argued that he was only bluffing or, at worst, intending to seize two disputed islands and the southern half of the ar-Rumaylah oilfield, which straddled the Iraq-Kuwait border.

She was straddling the whipping tongue, grinding his head back down into the mattress until it was only half visible, his hair protruding bushily from between her full thighs, his legs kicking back toward the edge of the bed to catch his breath.

Marry, I cannot remember the names of them all, but there was certes the pavonian touch, the Ledan straddle too, the chthonian ditch, the I think it was termed Ceutan flight and eke the Madrilenan interuberal.

I straddled the big monster, effectively blocking his view with my body, the two nurses carried the third through the open door panel into the Detainment Area.

The injured duelist never failed to heighten her color, particularly when she remembered how she had sat straddled across his legs in her chemise, all modesty cast to the four winds.

Very quickly Guido straddled him and placed the palms of his hands on his back, then started to press rhythmically.

WHERE Jackman lay observing he could see the long, wide building which straddled the road past the Seasouth Interchange.

As she straddled the bike and started kicking, it occurred to me that I could enter the idling Jaguar and be gone.

Cameron noiselessly made his way to the cellar half an hour later, it was to find Rose squirming about in her restless anxiety, and the sight of her lusciously rounded firm young body tensing and straddled at his mercy was one calculated to stir his carnal appetites to extreme.

Once he had an attacker down, Peppy would straddle the man, glowering.

I had just time to note others of his species had dropped here and there upon the ground, and were hurrying with frantic haste to the same destination when he reached the fatal branch, and was straddling victoriously down it, blind to all but love and longing.