Sentence examples similar to straddling on the from inspiring English sources

In addition, the resident with the best view of the altercation that night said the person "with lighter skin color" in red or white was being straddled on the ground by someone wearing dark colors.

Mr. Ailes said Mr. Bush insisted that he recut a negative advertisement about Senator Bob Dole's "straddling" on issues in the Republican primary because he thought the phrasing of a sentence was not fair.

We focus our analysis on the area straddling the PT2, the physiographic transition between the Lesser and High Himalaya that has yielded important insights into the nature of hinterland deformation across much of the Himalaya.

It's my equivalent of reading bad romance novels where the guy is straddling something on the cover.

And I'd bounce half-heartedly off the springboard and land - thud - on the top, straddled on my tender bits.

Magistrates were told that Simpson was straddling Ward on the living room floor with both hands around her throat when police arrived at her house and officers said they heard screams, crying and then a choking sound before finding Ward gasping for breath.

To the Editor: Regarding "Airlines Rev Up E-Ticket Efforts"(Practical Traveler, June 24): having felt both the highs and lows of e-ticketing, I'm still straddling the fence on the issue.

Again and again (and again) in "Ark of the Liberties" he writes the kind of fence-straddling "on the one hand/on the other hand" paragraphs that fight themselves to a draw.

It lies on the Des Plaines River, straddling the watershed between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

But the title is rendered: "And now I'm the headliner!" It's a grimly poignant image: the hunchbacked hanger-on straddling the murdered superstar Duke, though the body turns out to be that of his beloved daughter.

He told the police that he shot Mr. Martin in self-defense after the teenager knocked him to the ground, punched him in the nose, straddled him on the ground and repeatedly slammed his head into the pavement.