Sentence examples for word straddle from inspiring English sources

In a new radio advertisement, Steve Forbes, who is trying to dent Mr. Bush, also used the word "straddle" to attack Mr. Bush.

Although he does not name his opponent, Mr. Bradley's use of the word "straddle" in the advertisement is a stinging echo of an infamous 1988 attack commercial, "Senator Straddle," that George Bush used in the closing weekend of that campaign here to depict Bob Dole as a fence-sitter on cutting taxes.

Carol Lloyd in Salon offers one possibility: "The word 'moist' straddles the same cultural polarities of shame and openness that still haunt modern female sexuality.

I sat her up there and had her straddle that word wearing almost nothing.

("Mommy, don't," Boudreau says, were Karissa's last words, as Boudreau straddled her chest and strangled her with twine).

Add a new VC to the ranks in Europe: Station 12 is raising £150 million ($250 million), which it plans to invest in Series A and B rounds in the future Netflixes and Maker Studios of the world — in other words, startups in Europe that straddle the media, entertainment and technology verticals.

Contention is probably the wrong word given that Gatland, whose career straddles three of the home unions given his experience with Ireland and Wales and his four seasons in charge of Wasps, is certain to be offered the job.

In a way, Makor -- the word means source in Hebrew -- has been straddling two worlds with considerable success since it opened in October 1999.

Traditional bidets look like second toilets, with a faucet for washing — the name, a French word for a type of horse, refers to how users straddle it.

For example, a typical approach has been to present words at offsets to the left or right of a fixation point so that they straddle this point at various locations (and in some studies these words are also shown entirely to the right or left of this point in nearby locations; [18], [24] [27]).

A vast, ancient seabed straddling the midriff of the country, the Karoo (a Bushman word for "dry place") is the size of Germany.