Sentence examples for for straddling from inspiring English sources

Your spouse's shortcomings are no excuse for straddling the fence.

Mr. Barstow's films are noteworthy for straddling the line between home movies and independent films.

De León is not wrong to emphasize his elders' penchant for straddling the middle.

Hirscher had a three-race winning streak in January, and it ended with the two disqualifications for straddling at the last two slalom races.

Then again, he would probably have been burned as a witch - his reward for straddling the divide between male and female, earthly and otherworldly.

Shijiazhuang, in Hebei Province, and Wuhu, in Anhui Province, have also applied to obtain financing for straddling bus systems, Mr. Song said, while Luzhou in Sichuan Province has shown interest.

For Belton, conscious of straddling the city's racial lines, there is a particular sense of determination.

The ratio of O2 molecules reduced to H2O via the direct 4e− pathway with respect to those reduced via the indirect 2 sx 2e− pathway depends on x, being maximum for Co3O4 (x = 0) and for oxides straddling NiCo2O4 (0.6 < x < 1.2).

It's a perfect symbol for Charleston, straddling the Old and New South.

Running up one arm was the picture of an ancient fish, eusthenopteron, with fleshy lobes for fins, straddling the transition that would take our ancestors out of the water and onto dry land.

In the case of Christopher Reeve — whose portrait was on her Southampton studio wall, next to that of Ms. Minnelli — he posed for her, straddling a chair turned backward, just weeks before the riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed, Ms. Davisson said.