The word 'straddles' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is a verb that means to stand or sit with one leg on each side of something, or to cover or include multiple things at the same time. Example: The bridge straddles the river, connecting the two sides of the city. Other possible use: The company's growth strategy straddles both traditional and emerging markets.
Them is a glowering, languid novel of mid-century Detroit which straddles economic extremes as it steams toward a cataclysmic unraveling during the July 1967 uprising.
Like Connery, he straddles the divide between Hollywood and the punters on Sauchiehall Street.
They redated a hole that straddles the border of the states of Mato Grosso and Goiás in Brazil, called the Araguainha crater, to 254.7m years, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5m years.
The caliphate now straddles swathes of Syria and Iraq Egyptt's Sinai peninsula is becoming a war zone; and the chaos of Libya is giving jihadists a foothold that could become a "province" on Europe's doorstep.
She has the perfect background to lead an organisation that straddles the public and private sectors: a former boss of a steel company and director of Brazil's two biggest companies, Petrobras and Vale, she has also held numerous positions in local government and served as the first female director on the board of Brazil's huge development bank, BNDES.
THE McCoy Elkhorn mining complex straddles the border of Pike and Floyd counties in eastern Kentucky.
The president straddles a coalition that includes the ruling party, Islamists, the military and security forces, and tribal leaders.
It straddles great trade routes.
But the issues are more complex, for these are indigenous "Indians".The Ralco dam in south-central Chile, already more than half-complete, straddles the upper valley of the spectacular Biobio river, home to the Pehuenche Indians, close kin of the more numerous lowland-dwelling Mapuches.
Justice and home affairs, which has become a big new policy area since the passing of the Amsterdam treaty in 1997, straddles the divide.
Secondary care is provided in hospitals, whose consultants carry out specialist treatments and tackle emergencies.The Hounslow centre could be the start of a new way of running the NHS that straddles the old divide between primary and secondary care.
