of Straddle
Source: Webster's dictionaryI threw big cowardly Hall on his belly I straddled him and rooted both spurs onto his thighs he roared like a big calf attacked by dogs ... I used to trip him and let him take a mouth ful of dust now and again as he was as helpless as a big guano after leaving a dead bullock or a horse. Ned Kelly
I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside. Zooey Deschanel
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as 'addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness of speech nothingnothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say. Ezra Pound
Brig. Gen. John Bell Hood 's division straddled the turnpike, loosely connected with Jackson's right flank. Source: Internet
Laing (1985), pp. 118, 128. During the early 1980s, British bands like New Order and the Cure that straddled the lines of post-punk and new wave developed both new musical styles and a distinctive industrial niche. Source: Internet
One landed among the lifeboats in tow behind U-156, killing dozens of survivors, while others straddled the submarine itself causing minor damage. Source: Internet