How To Use Straddle In A Sentence

The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
Chukotka straddles the Arctic Circle and its nine - month winter can witness temperatures as low as - 60 C.
She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.” Breath Perfumes

Geographynote: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile Burundi
Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies?
A straddle is the use of the same strikes for both the call and the put, but a strangle uses out-of-the-money OTM options, usually equally spaced from the price of the underlying. Real-World Trading: Strangling Profits out of Our Option Trade - Yahoo! Finance
As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders.
The wider ends of the gate electrodes straddle the peripheral boundaries of the active region.
I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike.
This is the kind of issue that you can't straddle.
As usual, he prepared to bestraddle his English-made Triumph hog by hiking up his pants, but little did he realize that in doing so he had inadvertently switched on the Strapocaster's industrial-strength electromagnet. Word Magazine - Comments
A few cars behind where Guest stood a once pristine bright red, two-seater sports car lay on its back, straddled widthways across the remains of two other vehicles.
Sex and religion are a constant theme in her lyrics, while her highly charged live performances straddle the divide between divine possession and lustful abandonment.
This straddle-leg stance is the basic defensive position.
But now ’twere best thou bestraddle thine ass and make for the market and fetch me a pair of frails, 223 and I will look after the fish till thou return, when I and thou will load it on thine ass’s back. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Straddle - type single - track beam of Press Steel Concrete ( PC ) possess the action of bearing, orienting and stabilizing.
I think the key to avoiding unhealthy levels of groupthink has to do with designing spaces that consistently exert pull upon outsiders (or social hackers or community straddlers), so as to keep the air fresh.
This is a ploy by the Chaos Warrior, which uses its tentacled legs to straddle above the doorway and evade detection.
The storytellers are converging on the heart of Ireland on the mountainside, glens, waterfalls, ancient raths that are all located in the idyllic surrounds of the Slieve Bloom mountains that straddle both Laois and Offaly.
She was straddled across a terrified studenty looking lad who was drinking from a straw in the bottle.
It once straddled the boundary of two counties. Times, Sunday Times
They ply their trades in the great arenas of the world but many straddle the worlds of sport, showbusiness and celebrity through their sustained success. Times, Sunday Times
The project thus straddled the financial crash of 2008, and now concludes amid rising economic nationalism and anti-globalization sentiment. The Times Literary Supplement
She stretched her legs and arms, and almost fell asleep in her straddle.
A straddle is a bet on volatility, as it makes money if a market moves sharply either up or down. Threats Grow in Developing World
The basin straddles several climatic regions, including the cold temperate, mountain, subarctic, and arctic zones.
In New York, Mr. Prieto quickly began realizing his musical ambitions, which straddle jazz and Afro-Cuban traditions and lean resolutely forward. A Propulsive Force for Jazz
The pictures themselves straddle both worlds. The Times Literary Supplement
She simply inserts the pins in the soil so they straddle the ivy vine and keep it headed the right direction.
A further contributing factor is the fact that port equipment such as gantry cranes and straddle carriers, are not readily available in the market and most of the equipment is manufactured overseas on order and therefore generally has a long lead time (20 to 24 months). ANC Daily News Briefing
They were the sort of conflicts that frequently flare up along any ill-defined border which is straddled by farming communities.
It's described as a new kind of dance music which straddles jazz and soul.
Then Barbara Bush is called in, and as she straddles Rush's face and looses the girdle, her two labia "unfurl" and reach "halfway down to her knees, like some big ball-less scrotum" ... Aimless, aimless
They ply their trades in the great arenas of the world but many straddle the worlds of sport, showbusiness and celebrity through their sustained success. Times, Sunday Times
A giant robot Minotaur straddled the train platform, raising and lowering a golden double-bladed ax. VITALS
His time at Twickenham straddles a decade of astonishing underperformance by the team. Times, Sunday Times
Although her vocal range was not wide, the number of genres she straddled was impressive. Times, Sunday Times
French calf; heel one inch high, with steel nails; countered outside; straps narrow, of fine French calf put on "astraddle," and set down to the top of the back. Woodcraft
Then, limping over to Barn's prone body, he straddled the man, and sat down on his blubbery belly. GALILEE
He pulled on his helmet and straddled the motorbike.
McDowell develops a stringent reading of Sellars 'diagnosis of a "myth of the given" in perceptual experience to argue that we need always to separate out the exercise of concepts in experience from a causal account of the pre-conditions of experience and that the idea of "non-conceptual content" straddles this boundary in a philosophically unacceptable way. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
Wearing hip boots and overalls that are water-resistant but not waterproof, he is lowered from a tripod that straddles the manhole.
We're just not having fun," says Katherine during one date, apparently putting an end to the affair; but a few minutes later James is "supine on the bed with her astraddle him," in one of Spring's many vigorous, but not unequivocally joyful, bedroom scenes. The Pursuit of Okayness
Moss straddled the back of the end zone, leaped over the shoulder of safety Donovin Darius and caught a pass from Daunte Culpepper, snapping a 13-13 tie with 5: 34 left. USATODAY.com
Our line of defence straddled a major road from which the bulk of our unit was withdrawn the night before the British attack and my platoon was left behind as the rearguard with the instruction to fight to the last bullet.
On their fifth day, when the ship was riding so low she seemed sure to founder, Cochrane ordered another fother made, but this he ordered big enough to straddle half the starboard hull. Sharpe's Devil
The rest of the offerings straddle fare from France and Spain, starting with the soups - a refreshing gazpacho right alongside a hot, cheesy French onion.
He pulled the cuffs out of his back pocket and walked over to bestraddle the body on the floor. Burning Water
A Native American Indian reservation straddles the line dividing Mexico and the United States.
He turned the chair around and sat down astraddle it.
The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
The hardest part of this trick is getting your hips to start moving upward from the straddle.
The plants straddle the entire state
Hoodathunk (sponsored by the FSM, Noodles for Freedom!) says: backup, are you just a teeny bit cranky because that fence you constantly straddle is chafing? Think Progress » Perriello Blasts GOP Leaders In Washington For Refusing To Completely Denounce Harassment Of Democrats
This is a ploy by the Chaos Warrior, which uses its tentacled legs to straddle above the doorway and evade detection.
Most of the languages of this subfamily straddle the border between Chiapas and Guatemala. Campeche: on the edge of the Maya world
But it can have a serene, rustic feel, due in large part to the way it straddles the Rhine without overdeveloping the actual riverfront. A Resilient and Renovated Bonn
Maradi's sprawling markets straddle the main highway which passes south to Nigeria.
He cried out and rolled on his side as she straddled him and grabbed the collar of his jacket.
Straddled between Utah and Arizona in the Navaho Indian Reservation are the sandstone buttes, mesas and cliffs of Monument Valley, the setting for countless westerns.
Even school nurses, who straddle the two worlds of school employees and medicine, generally agree, with some caveats.
The offending work was a piece from Condo's suite of Kanye portraits in which a fearsome Kanye, pictured naked, sits straddled by a nude, phoenixlike, winged woman-creature. A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed
Rarely can one man have straddled two such contrasting worlds. Times, Sunday Times
Although her vocal range was not wide, the number of genres she straddled was impressive. Times, Sunday Times
One driver said he kept control only because his passenger straddled him facing frontwards and held the wheel. The Sun
He himself straddled myriad worlds. Times, Sunday Times
The appellation Nuits-St-Georges lies both sides of the town which straddles the small river Meuzin and incorporates the vineyards of neighbouring Prémeaux-Prissey to the south.
Alex was lying in the couch while Gabriel straddled one of the chairs by the dining table halfway across the room.
In the first inning, Mays stepped to the plate and assumed his classic stance—legs astraddle, weight equally divided between both legs, the bat held high. WILLIE MAYS
I walked into the room and straddled my director's chair.
He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate.
He grabbed a chair with one hand, spun it around, and sat down astraddle it across from Tully. The Huckleberry Murders
His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics.
Some fraction of memory cells or transistors in a vertical microcircuit will happen to straddle a boundary between polysilicon grains and will possibly fail as a result.
He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.
Of all the assumptions that followed the Cold War, none was sillier or more short-sighted than that one super-power would be able to bestraddle, let alone stabilise, the world. Simon Jenkins: Bush Gives a Glimmer of a Gandhian Humility
Described as part rock, part country, they straddle the very popular contemporary line between all out party animals and more considered contemplative songwriters and performers.
Indeed, the merchant's political convictions straddled the divide in southern opinion.
Although her vocal range was not wide, the number of genres she straddled was impressive. Times, Sunday Times
To stand on the footbridges that straddle the Run and look up the ice as riders on toboggans hurtle head-first beneath your feet at speeds of 120 km/h or better is to be awed by the boundlessness of human folly.
Place the appropriate amount of weight on the bar and straddle it with your feet just a little wider than hip-distance apart.
Her research straddles mathematics and social sciences.
It's a testament to this book's unusual ability to straddle fantasy and literary realms that this moment creates a real knot of emotion in the reader's chest.
It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.
The property straddled the boundary between the London boroughs of Lewisham and Bromley. Times, Sunday Times
To stand on the footbridges that straddle the Run and look up the ice as riders on toboggans hurtle head-first beneath your feet at speeds of 120 km/h or better is to be awed by the boundlessness of human folly.
Like much of his fiction, it also straddles more than one world. Times, Sunday Times
He's not wobbly, he never wavers, he never straddles the line between two sides.
So I looked again at Bayard, who stood astraddle the heap of abandoned clothing, looking back at me. Virginity
This not-uncommon strategy is called a straddle, and it is perfect for taking advantage of periods of high market volatility where direction is uncertain. Forbes.com: News
In fact, several modestly scaled constructions were displayed on plywood panels that straddled sawhorses, a presentation that conjured a studio or workshop and underscored the makeshift appearance of most of the work on view.
My aunt now sat up, and the edges of her float came up out of the water as she straddled it to look at me.
It was July 11, his 95th birthday, and he was being straddled from behind by a man in a bright cobalt-blue suit, with a salt-and-pepper mustache and the kind of streetwise Italian-American accent that persists more vigorously in acting classes than on the streets of Soho. The Battle Over a Barnes & Noble in Bridgehampton
Spectacular Vistas and Ancient Landscapes Along the Hilly Roads Outside Edinburgh From the crenellated walls of Edinburgh Castle, perched on the dramatic volcanic plug that straddles Princes Street Gardens, one has an unbroken view of the southern peninsula of the Kingdom of Fife. Drives That Leave the City Behind
In fairness, jumping jacks (aka the side straddle hop) are an unnatural calisthenic. Balloon Juice » 2007 » October
With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity.
The so-called straddle trade generated a credit of $5.12 and will make money if the stock remains between about SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Mount Elgon straddles the border between Kenya and Uganda.
She positioned herself, unknowingly into a straddle.
Everest straddles the Nepal-China border, and she climbed the mountain from the Nepalese side.
As for the bottom metal unit, it's a classy, all-steel affair with a straddle-type hinged floorplate.
A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
There will always be the group that has to straddle the line between legal and illegal and there will always be the guy that "huntcamp" points out that will cut the antlers from a deer and walk away. If your not going to eat it , why would you shoot a animal?
I reached the hole and straddled it, then did a push-up and looked down. LEGAL TENDER
I'm a-gunter set straddle on the ridge-pole, an 'carry a flag. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
About fifteen feet up the heap is a crawl-through, which leads to more traversing in a fissure passage, and a straddle down a short chimney onto blocks.
Obviously, in this standard straddle-cable setup for each brake, the narrow-stance brake is more powerful. Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: A detailed look at brake shudder
Collectively, these archived interviews provide a detailed insight into the filmmaker, who straddles genres and themes with great focus.
Solving the border dispute may be difficult, despite progress in recent years at demarcating the boundary, which straddles the Himalayan mountain range.
The shots straddled the target.
The Constant Liberal is impeccably researched and straddles that awkward line between general biography and a work of academia. The Times Literary Supplement
Over time, mix in the boxer's shuffle and the side straddle.
The charioteer was a little diamond-headed fellow who straddled the neck of the dragon and moved the levers that made it go. The Lost Princess of Oz
I straddled his waist and started to disrobe him.
Rarely can one man have straddled two such contrasting worlds. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, the market's technical patterns have emerged a clear Straddle conversion.
`This is the Tian Shan which straddles China and Kyrgyzstan. CHAMELEON
San Antonio successfully straddles the line between historic relic and modern city.
He tossed his books on the table and straddled the chair opposite me.
Like much of his fiction, it also straddles more than one world. Times, Sunday Times
The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Check in at the exclusive Leela Goa Hotel, which straddles a narrow spit of land between the Sal River and the Arabian Sea in Mobor.
Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes.
They's a gal o 'mine come in on the train, which she'll be wantin', mebbe, to take a ride, an 'hain't fetched no split-up clothes fer to straddle a real saddle. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country
Jalpari Chaat tandoori (prawn and scallops, with mint, and grapes) is a fusion of Mediterranean and Indian influences, and they have quite a few dishes that would straddle that.
It's described as a new kind of dance music which straddles jazz and soul.
Chekhov's life straddled two epochs of Russian history.
Indeed, he would have looked like a weak-kneed fence straddler. Latin America
It's surprising, then, how a couple of strangely touching notes toward the close redeem a work that boldly straddles the line between total hokum and the very stimulating.
Instead the building could straddle it, getting its feet in the water and feeling the tides.
Straddle back handspring" is an important action in the beam voluntary of Ling Jie the world gymnastic champion.
He places his melodies near the top of his range to sound more fragile, so the tunes straddle the break between his radiant tenor voice and his falsetto.
Areas of black and Wyoming big sagebrush grade upward into mountain big sagebrush and curlleaf mountain-mahogany, which straddles the transition between this mid-elevation brushland and the mountain brush zone of the higher Central Nevada Bald Mountains (13t). Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
This straddle-leg stance is the basic defensive position.
Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents.
Heavily influenced by the traditional contadino culture passed on from their parents, the second generation uneasily straddled two worlds.
Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from The War in the Air
Standing under the aspen trees that straddle this burn in our strath, I wondered at the varying shapes. Country diary: Straithnairn
You can drive over it without damage, just as long as you straddle any fittings and raise implements such as mowers and garden tillers.
Water infatuation is implicit in the location of many henges, while the massive palisaded enclosures at West Kennet, partly visible from Silbury, straddled the Kennet.
But now 'twere best thou bestraddle thine ass and make for the market and fetch me a pair of frails, [FN#223] and I will look after the fish till thou return, when I and thou will load it on thine ass's back. Arabian nights. English
Well the toe-touch is where you jump and your legs go out like a straddle, as if you were sitting on the floor with your legs out in a straddle, and you've got to touch your toes.
Can the Democrats continue to straddle the values issues under those circumstances?
But the prime minister has devoted more of his tour to EU diplomacy than to US, and impressively straddled what otherwise might be a damaging divide between the powers.
Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts. Desert Dust
The darkness is seductive; and the black ocean straddles me as a dark succubus.
Rarely can one man have straddled two such contrasting worlds. Times, Sunday Times
The straddle is self-centering, and clamps securely with two small hex screws. Wrenched & Ridden: Avid Shorty Ultimate ’cross brakes
The village straddles the frontier.
Further above, on a bit of wall still more or less intact, the sentry stood straddle-legged in an open crenel, hands on hips, surveying the river and the valley beyond.
Her knees straddled his stomach to either side, pinning him beneath her.
Burundilandlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile Geography-note
One way to do that is through what 's known as a straddle, in which an investor purchases both put and call options on a market index. Threats Grow in Developing World
He was transforming into a larger-than-life character that unapologetically shoved his way into the American Psyche until he seemed to almost stand astraddle Hollywood, casting a tall shadow that stretched across the entire country.
The company's client base straddles a wide variety of sectors.
The shadows marched over the land, then straddled the freeway, cumbrous but determined. DEAD LINES
Ali was astraddle her with one knee in the small of her back. Fatal Error
Once boys start wearing pants it becomes easier for them to stand on their heads, twirl on railings, straddle fences, play leapfrog, and walk on stilts.
Then please do us the courtesy of going and watching Megan Fox straddle a motorcycle in shorty shorts again while giant robot topple a city. 'New Moon' director Chris Weitz: 'This was made for the fans' | EW.com
The only parts of the continental USA with land antipodes are a small patch in Montana, opposite Kerguelen Island (which also straddles the border into Canada), and two small patches of Colorado which are opposite the remote Île Amsterdam and Île Saint-Paul. I guess you could call this the NATO meme
They straddle both worlds, commingling the values of each.
Charleville courthouse was deemed to be physically unsound, and its district, which straddles the county boundary, is also dealt with in Kilmallock.
Antiaircraft fire shells straddled his sitting Kingfisher as Oliver pulled Coumbre and Jacobs aboard.
Side straddle Begin with the basic bounce step. Times, Sunday Times
Alternating graceful acoustic songs with brutal hard rock, Neil Young has somehow fashioned a career that has straddled five decades.
During imperial times, that archetypal native, John Bull, was swaggeringly sure of himself: common sense told this true-born Englishman that he was also a Briton and as such the representative of an empire that straddled the globe.
Straddle - type single - track beam of Press Steel Concrete ( PC ) possess the action of bearing, orienting and stabilizing.
Well, Ron had planted himself in a straddle position facing the tree, in the crotch of a very big branch and the trunk.
A latch member is pivotally mounted on one of said flared end portions and is spring biased to a first position whereat it straddles the spaced apart brackets and closes off the rod receiving pocket.
The worker must straddle and stretch across the distances, often very large distances.
By examining the conventions of published private letters, he shows how they straddle the border between fiction and reality.
Max straddled the bike next to the girl's stand and gave her a wide smile.
It was also covered in bony overlapping plates, like all placoderms, but had weak jaws and a peculiar high-crested bone, somewhat like a dorsal fin, straddled its back.
He himself straddled myriad worlds. Times, Sunday Times
It's been just over a week since we last drove down memory lane regarding Baidu. com (BIDU) and its "VW" base and an update on a long September 80 straddle position which was still in need of some extra stock fuel to get the P & L out of an essentially neutral-like situation. Investors.com
It's described as a new kind of dance music which straddles jazz and soul.
Much of the best art straddles and defies categories, and is transgressive or hybrid out of necessity, not out of aesthetic correctness nor faddist whim. ArtScene: Joachim Bandau and Cornelia Schulz Deliver Optical Pleasure with Intellectual Vigor
Our property straddled the narrow ridge and fell away steeply on both sides.
Alrune Rod is ultimately the best bunch of all the inspirational Danish whey-faced loons, mainly because their first two albums are real cosmic kicks up the psychic jacksie, as their songs effortlessly straddled wildly opposing emotions. WN.com - Articles related to Markets Slide in Asia
She straddled the chair and rested her forehead on the back of it.
The Horseshoe Falls straddle the Canadian - United States border between Ontario and New York State.
Chukotka straddles the Arctic Circle and its nine - month winter can witness temperatures as low as - 60 C.
He straddled over to the car and gently slid her into the backseat.
Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea.
We took off towards the magnificent mountains that straddled the Sligo / Leitrim border.
Brummell and Byron did, Robinson and Caroline employed gendered expectations of indecorous feminine behavior to straddle the divide between woman as décor and woman as actant by toying with the doubling nature of revealing fabrics, suggestive accoutrements, or outlandish getups. Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text
I straddled my bicycle and pedaled off to Emily's farm.
When he finally called her over to the dinner table, she executed a perfect Michael Jackson moonwalk, finished up with a 180-degree spin and straddle-hopped over the chair back to land squarely in her seat.
Side straddle Begin with the basic bounce step. Times, Sunday Times
He smiled at me, turned his chair around and straddled it.
The pictures themselves straddle both worlds. The Times Literary Supplement
She straddled his chest, keeping him from standing up.

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