Straddling Sentence Examples

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  • Left her straddling the borders of life and death.

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  • Carmen had Penny in the stanchion and was straddling her, trying to trim one hoof when the little doe simply lay down.

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  • Here the hotel, indeed the whole town, is built straddling a ravine with waterfalls.

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  • Just behind the tanks, straddling the trench line, came Bradleys pumping machine-gun bullets into Iraqi troops.

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  • Her straddling frontiers run for thousands of miles through the flat European plain.

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  • Here, too, straddling the county boundary, sits Longleat in its magnificent park.

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  • A curvy female body with long, stunning wings straddling a motorcycle will not diminish a biker's reputation.

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  • Up to that point, I was still straddling two different types of structure.

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  • Make sure that when you are not on the seat but you're standing straddling the bike frame, you clear the tubes.

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  • This cool climate wine region includes the Santa Cruz Mountains north of Monterey and has a few wineries in the hills straddling the Pacific and Silicon Valley.

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  • Dietary supplements are more than just vitamin pills; they can be protein powders, herbs, bars, gels, teas and a whole slew of products straddling the lines between food, sport supplements and medication.

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  • Each of the four Sanctuaries sat on an island straddling the human and immortal worlds and housed an immortal treasure, such as the Oracle.

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  • In February 1700 Dampier called at Juan Fernandez and while there Captain Straddling of the "Cinque Porte" galley quarrelled with his men, forty-two of whom deserted but were afterwards taken on board by Dampier; five seamen, however, remained on shore.

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  • On this occasion Straddling quarrelled with Alexander Selkirk, who, at his own request, became the island's most famous colonist, for his adventures are commonly believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

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  • He grudgingly released her and pushed himself back, straddling her thighs.

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  • Praevaricare meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer."

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  • He waited for her flush, then released her and sat up, straddling her again.

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