Sentence examples for that it straddles from inspiring English sources

The mammoth, 160,000-square-foot building is so big that it straddles a street, and its 5 stories house the combined home of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Canadian Songwriters Hall of Famee and Canadian Country Music Association Hall of Fame.

(Its other claim to fame is that it straddles a state line, so you can walk down the main street with one foot in Tennessee and the other in Virginia).

The old Blackfriars station on the north bank of the Thames has been extended so that it straddles the river, with an entrance at either end.

Caravan magazine said Fernandes's book, "like the music he writes about, 'swings,' " adding that it "straddles an era of hope, madness, faith in free musicality and independence".

With its cast stone and lead-coated copper accents, the red brick building has been designed to enhance the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods that it straddles.

In the area of online computer games, its Xbox Live service has more than 5m subscribers, suggesting that the company is capable of supplying innovative services.Chris Capossela, who manages Microsoft's business-products group, believes the firm's "unique" strength is that it straddles both the consumer and business markets at a time when innovations often start at home rather than in the office.

By Friday 20 January, the cries of those crossword fans who felt that positioning the cryptic crossword so that it straddled the fold on the penultimate page of the main section required feats of origami as well as deductive reasoning had been heard.

However, the vineyard that produces it straddles the boundary between the villages of Chassagne and Puligny and both villages have inconsiderately hyphenated the vineyard name to theirs.

This entails sliding the sigmoidal input-output function rightwards so that it again straddles the luminance distribution to which the moviegoer is exposed (dashed pink curve in Figure 13.1d); loss of information about the outdoor scene has now been minimized by the adjustment in sensitivity.

"It straddles that line between an attractive, go-to product that people might like to savor and a helpful nutraceutical aid.

"It straddles that middle line between a musical and what people think of as opera".