straddle

straddle on the tariff issue

straddle a political question

The village straddles the frontier.

The shots straddled the target.

a man who had straddled the issue of taxes.

he turned the chair round and straddled it.

Avery straddled the rope and jumped.

With or without permission, they straddle laws, jurisdictions, and identities with ease.

Monica Monica, you could come in straddling him, they still wouldn't believe it.

Take that frog out! ordered Fern. Avery straddled the rope and jumped.

Then you straddled the knot, so that it acted as a seat.

Many of which like the Uzbeks, Tajiks and Pashtuns straddled the country's borders.

Straddling the boundary between the sacred and the profane, they can be great social unifiers and dividers.

" It is the rare person who has the tools and resourcefulness to straddle the divide."

The colossal statue of the sun god Helios didn't actually straddle the entrance to Rhodes's harbour as a rumour suggests.

This means a block can straddle, say, the interface between a metal pipe and the rock surrounding it.