Sentence examples for straddle in from inspiring English sources

Although he does not name his opponent, Mr. Bradley's use of the word "straddle" in the advertisement is a stinging echo of an infamous 1988 attack commercial, "Senator Straddle," that George Bush used in the closing weekend of that campaign here to depict Bob Dole as a fence-sitter on cutting taxes.

If possible, arrange your friends in a graphic pose: Alexa Chung and friends made a human pyramid on the beach; Taylor Swift and Haim hiked along a riverbed until they found exactly the right number of photogenic boulders to straddle in hotpants and sneakers.

It looks like one or more big options traders sold a straddle in the front month and initiated a short strangle in the March contract.

One way to take advantage of this situation is to play an Aug. 20 straddle in an effort to capture gains on a potentially volatile move in the shares.

• When people stand they should slightly straddle in V shape.

The range estimation of these gunfire control systems provided a significant accuracy advantage over earlier ships with optical rangefinders; this was demonstrated off Truk Atoll on 16 February 1944 when Iowa engaged the at a range of 35700 yards and straddled her, setting the record for the longest-ranged straddle in history.

A section for one woman and two men displays little more than leg straddles in every conceivable direction.

Straddled in the gateway between South America and Panama, Necoclí lies in strategic territory where right-wing paramilitary death squads, drug cartels, the army and guerrillas have been locked in a struggle for control since the 1980s.

He had an unmistakably black sound, a sound that had been forged over centuries in the privacy of segregated worship, but he fitted it, often, over flawless Standard English syntax that straddled in its rhythms the Constitution and the Bible.

There's something very dynamic about straddling in the nude an Egyptian sphinx".

It looks like investors initiated both short strangles and straddles in the first half of the session to take in available premium.