Sentence examples for while straddling from inspiring English sources

"Then you threw him onto the floor, and while straddling him, you yelled profanities at him".

It is a struggle familiar to many immigrants -- trying to balance national and transnational loyalties while straddling different cultures.

Leaning against his drawing board while straddling his bicycle, Mr. DeCoteau, using a pen, draws on his mapping paper.

The deftness shown by Donald in producing four victories while straddling two continents was impressive, his margin of error being as small as a blip on an air traffic controller's radar screen.

This one involves the radiantly smiling man with the glossy black hair in the book's perfectly chosen jacket photograph, speaking outside his birthplace while straddling two car bumpers with the grace of Cary Grant.

When a production seems ill conceived or clunky, some patrons boo production teams on behalf of the singers, who may have been forced to climb rocks, wear cumbersome costumes, sing "Di quella pira" while straddling a seesaw, and whatnot.

All the while he was straddling the delicate line between comedy and rap.

The Cowboys remain as enigmatic as ever while again straddling mediocrity heading into their Thanksgiving Day game with the Washington Redskins.

It's entirely in keeping with the infectious metatheatrical spirit of the Pearl Theater Company's staging of "Figaro" that the actor Sean McNall blurs the line between the title character and this 18th-century comedy's author, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, while blithely straddling the gulf separating pre-Revolution France from the present-day America.

There is a photograph of Lindsey Wixon's bewigged head dangling from her fist; another model, Marte, apparently suckles an infant dressed in a christening costume; and a bare-backed Elsa Peretti-lookalike fondles a drink while awkwardly straddling a faux-fur throw.

Ms. Pinkins, a warm and winning performer, is appealing in a double-edged friendship duet with Ms. Collette, though even she can do nothing to redeem a song in which she sings unhappily about how much she likes her life while sexually straddling Mr. Patinkin.