Sentence examples for attempting to straddle from inspiring English sources

Von Oelhoffen, attempting to straddle that narrow chalk line, said he tried to hit Palmer without hurting him.

Like Electronic Arts, Sega is attempting to straddle two worlds the land of death matches and health pods in its popular Unreal Tournament online game and the slightly more mundane atmosphere of checkers and hearts.

For now, the restaurant attempts to straddle the divide between casual and upmarket.

Timbers invited the cast to play with the props as they attempted to straddle the fifteenth and the twenty-first centuries.

In time, however, the novel does not merely attempt to straddle realism and romantic archetype but throws in some baser elements for good measure.

The G8 and G20 nations have yet to bridge the gaps in perception and strategies of the developing and the developed countries even as the emerging economies attempt to straddle the two sides.

"If I show up in an Ivanka Trump dress, I'm violating it?" Bannon and Priebus represent well-defined camps in the White House, but Conway has attempted to straddle the divide.

I was telling myself: 'Wow, I'm blessed to have this culture.'" Morris now attempts to straddle both worlds, of Snapchat and of Marshallese customs on clothing and behavior, as well as celebrations such as kemem, a big bash thrown at the first birthday of a child.

The poems attempt to straddle possible worlds--in this state of awareness the endless realities curled inside the immediate experience appear like growth rings in a tree--which can't of course be seen until the trees is cut into--this is what I meant by quantum loop worlds--when everything on the planet died--Snake didn't die.

Herein lies the problem of Wolf's admirable attempt to straddle two worlds.

"At times, it seems like the attempts to straddle two roles: the chief of staff and the spokeswoman.