Sentence examples for by straddling from inspiring English sources

A series that brilliantly mixed comedy and tragedy ended by straddling the two.

Onstage, she asserts her dominance by straddling a microphone stand and, later, kicking one over.

By straddling so many concerns, politically, formally and otherwise, Churchill – unsurprisingly – has had an enormous impact on contemporary drama.

— but the larger question will be harder to solve: Rubio has succeeded in politics by straddling as many positions as possible.

He exercises more power in selecting his roles and has made an extremely savvy choice by straddling the Scorsese-to-Spielberg gamut.

"Rubio has succeeded in politics by straddling as many positions as possible," Osnos writes in his Profile of the Florida senator.

"The Knick," which was written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed in full by Soderbergh, raises the bar even higher for Cinemax, in part by skillfully straddling the line between Prestige TV and the artful execution of one of TV's most stalwart genres.

January's attack prompted a Hezbollah response in the Shebaa Farms, a small strip of land occupied by Israel straddling its borders with Lebanon and Syria.

Recent generations have been just as influenced by Lil Kimm's cover of "Hard Core" — Kimberly Denise Jones in a sex nest choked by roses, straddling a bear-skin rug, the bear head still attached — and the pinups Esther Baxter and Melyssa Ford as they have been by Vogue.

By tastefully straddling the line between fashion and fetish, her clothing has appeared in many of Vogue's international iterations and has even been worn by famous people like Beyonce and Lady Gaga.

He's seen an opportunity to hit two markets at once by just straddling any negative spin: he's winning over the growingly disgruntled swathe of voters who might dip UKIP's way, and he's getting the left mad enough to keep writing about him.