Sentence examples for be straddled from inspiring English sources
verb
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something. To sit astride.
It made Thomas furious to be straddled and repositioned.
The chair is meant to be straddled, so the sitter is facing backward and can write on its lectern, which swivels 180 degrees left to right.
Having three underperforming batsmen in the top four is a bad enough situation to be straddled with, but what has made things worse for India are some of the on-field decisions we saw in Nagpur.
The benches, should they be approved, can be straddled, lounged on like an Art Deco sofa, or used to play cards or write a letter or read a book.
The fury exchanged between centre-left and radical left forces across Europe is, all too often, a deflection from an uncomfortable truth: that neither has so far produced a convincing answer to how these multiple divisions can be straddled, and how a viable electoral coalition can be produced that would win power.
Type-I chirps require emissions from one active layer to be straddled or confined by the other.
Sometimes Mr Gove seems to be straddling both camps, sometimes in a single speech.
The industry here is in transition: Some companies are fully in the new world, some are in the old; most seem to be straddling both.
Stuart Seidel, NPR's managing editor, said that the term "seems to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular".
At the moment the interpretations of this model seem to be straddling the middle ground - there is a great Tree of Life (sensu Darwin, Lamarck, etc).
He is straddled by jagged towers of steel, representing the trade center's north and south towers.
