Sentence examples for stop straddling from inspiring English sources
The car skids around and comes to a stop straddling the railroad tracks.... PHIL (eyes gleaming) Oh, yeah — don't drive on the railroad tracks.
Thanks to their efforts, he was eventually forced out in June 2005, though his pay-off of $113.7m was one of Wall Street's most egregious golden parachutes.The merger had been celebrated at first as the birth of a financial one-stop-shop straddling wholesale and retail markets.
When a couple of San Diego police officers stopped Felipe Campuzano, he was straddling a bicycle on a sidewalk, "operating it at a 'very slow, walking speed' alongside of a female companion who was walking," a court would later write.
"It seemed like a reasonable compromise at the time to stop the straddle transactions," Mr. Toder said.
Meanwhile, back home, who amongst us doesn't encounter some street person carrying a cardboard sign, while straddling a highly trafficked stop light?
Straddling his bicycle as he stopped on the way to sign in for the daily stage on Friday, Livingston said, "Why was Eddy Merckx so great, why was Greg LeMond, why was Bernard Hinault and Anquetil and Indurain?" To ask is to answer.
Stopping for gas, he decided that a site straddling the Clifton-Nutley border just south of Route 3 would do nicely for a production plant and offices.
The writers spoke about straddling cultures.
It is designed to skip traffic problems by straddling the road, allowing it to cruise over gridlocked traffic or allowing traffic to flow underneath it when it is stopped.
