Sentence examples for straddled it from inspiring English sources

Melvill climbed onto the roof of SpaceShipOne, and straddled it like Major Kong in "Dr. Strangelove".

Once one has straddled it there's something about it that makes it dashed awkward to get off.

Coalescing again stage right, the dancers' placement highlighted the rope on the floor: some stood just inside, some just outside, and one straddled it.

Luckily, I don't have to remind myself of the Great Divide between the crossword-minded and the rest of the world, because I have straddled it for years.

In response, the Saudi authorities have embarked on a multibillion-dollar effort to strengthen the border, evacuating scores of villages that once straddled it and building elaborate defense networks to keep intruders out.

The man dragged the bike away, straddled it, and tried to start it, bobbing up and down, pitching his weight onto the lever, the engine whirring but not catching.

Thirty minutes into our meeting, as he attempted to renegotiate a red couch by straddling it from behind, Mr. Mugler knocked an antique gold ashtray from its perch, smashing it to pieces.

China does not recognise the boundary, and is already extracting gas from a field which straddles it.

There is a fine line between habit and superstition, and Jets players and coaches often straddle it.

The bunker proved impervious to post-war demolition – so a block of steel-and-glass postwar apartments simply straddles it, as if it were an ancient rocky outcrop.

From there a rising piece of rock led the last hundred feet to the summit, which was a spine so narrow that you could practically straddle it.