To reach the cooked barley, or mash, Selders had to climb onto a metal grate twelve feet high and straddle the edge of the boiling kettle — one foot on the grate, the other on the kettle's lid.
Much of the prefecture's area is mountainous, including Mount Shirane (10,472 feet [3,192 metres]) and other peaks of the southern Japanese Alps in the west and northwest and Mount Fuji (12,388 feet [3,776 metres]), Japan's highest point, straddling the southern border.
From the bridge of the Seletar they look like row upon row of repeating, multicoloured Lego bricks, six units high, each straddled by multiple cranes – miniature versions of the ship loaders, sliding back and forth on rails.
The higher the straddle, the better your legs will turn.
His paintings straddled high and low, with intensity and feeling, like sad bouquets.
Prince and Princess This ability to straddle high and low, based in a refusal to distinguish between casual and serious, is shared by all of the greatest New Dylans.
The quinta where the celebration occurred is in the shadow of Castelo de Vide, a town that straddles high hills and still boasts residents inside the walls of its medieval castle.
Descended from Marcel Duchamp and Buster Keaton, Mr. Wegman has straddled high and low for more than three decades, using his signature Weimaraners to make the art world's funniest videos, as well as television commercials, calendars and children's books.
It's time to put the spotlight on Generation Z, a demographic who straddle high school to university.
This park is a Belgian - German initiative to protect the Eifel high plateau which straddles the two countries.
