How to Use straddle in a Sentence

straddle

1 of 2 verb

• Turkey straddles Asia and Europe.
• The man straddles your dad and brings his legs around his torso.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Part of the intrigue comes from the way gold straddles two worlds.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
• The sauce straddles the line between a broth and a rich white sauce.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2025
• Mahan chose to straddle the line.
  — Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
• Baez threw the driver on the ground, straddled him and pressed a gun to his back.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
• Her husband then climbed on top of her and straddled her with his legs across her waist.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
• For most children, the age of the dinosaur straddles years four and five.
  — Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026
• The bighorn herd that straddles the frontier will be severed.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• Guthrie’s street straddled a light green and a light orange section.
  — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
• Style-wise, tulip glasses straddle the line between the flute and coupe.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2023
• Silver, on the other hand, straddles two worlds.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
• But Bieber’s Rhode is the rare unicorn that straddles both worlds.
  — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
• With her eyes closed, Frenza straddles a huge felled tree covered in moss.
  — Agnieszka Szpila, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• One of those pitchers straddles both challenges as a two-way player.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
• The whole season was about Maddie straddling two worlds.
  — Kennedy French, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
• At the moment his career is straddling middle ground.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
• Arsenal’s first four goals were struck across a 22-minute burst that straddled half-time.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2025
• Each car’s wheels straddle a wide rail that keeps it from coming into contact with other cars.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• This is not someone who is going to be straddling anything onstage.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• Levine is known for his ability to straddle genres with great agility.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 25 Feb. 2026
• Goes commando in tight leather pants to straddle a phallic gold statue.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2023
• Through means that straddle the line of legality, Chuck gets his hands on one of the drives.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• The best response to being straddled by Jonathan Groff?
  — EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• There’s a fine line between lucky and cursed, however, and Pulisic is straddling it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
• The latter will show exactly where your boundary lines fall and whether the fence sits on one side or straddles the line.
  — Sheila Kim, The Spruce, 15 Apr. 2026
• Children from blue-collar warrens straddling the road strutted about.
  — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
• The main lodge straddles rustic and luxe, like a log cabin mansion in the Adirondacks.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
• Stop flitting around and stop straddling strategies by making the plan that becomes your default.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Gus Wenner built his career straddling the line between old and new media.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Feb. 2026

straddle

2 of 2 noun

• Japanwala finds that garments like this straddle the line between fashion and fine art.
  — Aamina Khan, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2021
• That’s not to be confused with the head straddle, which is the move preferred by mantellid frogs.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2016
• That cultural straddle has helped land him the top job at one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
  — Stu Woo, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
• But that straddle may not be enough to protect China from Western reprisals.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
• Those few vertical meters might be an hour’s hike — or a dangerous straddle and scooch — away.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• When Fosbury got started in the sport, high jumpers ran parallel to the bar and straddle-kicked over it.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
• Like the invasive lesser celandine, trees of heaven hurt ecosystems that straddle stream beds and river ways.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 24 Sep. 2025
• Try a straddle wall stretch based on comfort and flexibility.
  — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 20 Jan. 2026
• This year’s draft straddles that temperamental crisis more than most.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Fructose is a weapons-grade sweetener, and sucrose straddles the spectrum to provide backup on both sides.
  — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The best tech gifts straddle that line between luxury and utility better than almost anything else.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside, 20 Nov. 2025
• Forty nights of data revealed the dorsal straddle, the newfound mating position.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2016
• The new first-of-its-kind ride will feature motorbike straddle-style seats suspended from an overhead track that will hug the hillside terrain.
  — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
• Unable to stick with the football or basketball teams, Fosbury tried track but struggled there with the preferred jump of those days — the straddle.
  — Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• His purple district straddles Fairfax and Prince William counties.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• In recent years, that sort of straddle has become an increasingly difficult posture to maintain.
  — Cathleen Decker, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• Trees whose trunks straddle property lines are considered shared, requiring consent from both owners for removal.
  — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
• Side Squats Hang in a straddle forward fold, point your toes outward, and bend the right knee, taking the right elbow inside the right knee and the left foot flexed.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 28 Apr. 2017
• The Biden White House is making the case that China's straddle on the war is unsustainable.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• The quantity and quality are stunning, and the authors whose culinary hearts straddle geographies are our perfect guides.
  — Joe Ray, Wired News, 6 Nov. 2025
• The percentages are derived from an options trade known as a straddle, which entails buying both bullish and bearish contracts that can be exercised at the same price for the stock.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018
• Gabrielle Union at 52 straddles both worlds with playful, fearless styling that balances skin and sophistication.
  — Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 18 Aug. 2025
• One of them is a straddle, which involves buying both bullish and bearish options, targeting a selloff in Treasuries and thus higher yields across the long end of the curve.
  — Vivien Lou Chen, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• But as China’s relations with the West have become more fraught, that straddle is turning into an uncomfortable and unsteady split.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 9 June 2020
• The projections are based on an options trade called a straddle, which entails acquiring both bullish and bearish options contracts that allow investors to buy or sell stock at a specific price.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• Park officials are calling it the longest and fastest straddle coaster on the West Coast, although there are not a lot of them in California.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• The methods include the standard side straddle, the waist-straddling maneuver, the reverse bear hug method, the handstand and the Evetts-Russomano method.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 June 2017
• In Milan, her Paris Texas Ricky boots reinforced the actress’s knack for tapping pieces that straddle trend and collectability.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• These include a seated straddle stretch to work hamstring flexibility, and hip-mobility drills that use a resistance band to work his residual limb in various planes of motion.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 29 May 2021
• Keiko Matsui Pianist-composer-producer straddles jazz, classical and rock.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019