1. astride - Adverb
2. astride - Preposition
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own. Plutarch
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Samuel Beckett
Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial... H. P. Lovecraft
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. Charles Kingsley
Two things cannot be hidden: being astride a camel and being pregnant. Lebanese Proverb