Sentence examples for straddles it from inspiring English sources

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

The man who straddles it, with the authority to determine what direction his country and his movement take, is a chubby-cheeked 39-year-old Shiite Muslim cleric named Hassan Nasrallah.

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.

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

My children attend a school and play soccer on fields that straddle it.

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

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.

If you're lucky you can kind of straddle it and I think I kind of tend to stay more on the light side.

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.