The word 'straddling' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person who is sitting or standing astride something, usually with their legs on either side of it. For example, "The toddler straddled the log happily, enjoying the new viewpoint."
The country boosted security on its 500-mile border with Iraq in July, deploying thousands of troops to back up border guards after the jihadis captured Mosul, seized swaths of territory including Anbar province, and announced a caliphate straddling the border with Syria.
At 150 minutes, the epic length of the film posed a challenge to programmers trying to offer customers a choice of two evening showtimes, and there was evidence of straddling across two screens, alternating with a shorter film.
Straddling the northern states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua, the Sierra has been a stronghold of the country's drug trade for as long as anyone can remember.
That gives the metal gate straddling it three contact areas instead of just one to exert control over the current a large patch on either side of the fence and a smaller one along the top.
LAKE SKADAR, straddling the border between Albania and Montenegro, is one of the most beautiful spots in the Balkans.
Is there some reason why a retail presence straddling several countries should work better in Central than in Western Europe?Certainly the market is less mature.
THE Rwenzori mountains straddling Uganda and Congo are dark green and shrouded in rain clouds and mists which part only rarely to reveal dazzling equatorial glaciers.
I was part of the web-straddling generation.
(I can't keep from imagining conspiracies to blackmail the famously fence-straddling justice, plots to slip microscopic mind-control robots into his morning oatmeal, schemes to kidnap and replace him with a shapeshifting mutant, and so on).
It also makes small washing machines that are just right for young urban professionals, many of whom live in tiny apartments.But the masters of pyramid-straddling are mobile-handset makers.
Whereas Asia's failing banks are being knocked together in desperation, mergers such as this week's between Swiss Bank Corporation and Union Bank of Switzerland are part of a battle between well-capitalised banks to dominate what they hope will be a profitable world-straddling super-league (see article).
