Explore Straddling through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Straddling meaning
present participle and gerund of straddle
Using Straddling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of straddle
- In the example corpus, straddling often appears in combinations such as: straddling the, was straddling, straddling her.
Context around Straddling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Straddling
- In this selection, "straddling" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, facility, defendant, city, two and northern stand out and add context to how "straddling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include both exceptional straddling the line and but straddling the low. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "straddling" sits close to words such as acorns, acrobatics and acura, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with straddling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Russia is straddling to make noticeable its economic marks inside Africa. (11 words)
Officers found her on the garden patio with Cousans straddling her holding an eight-inch kitchen knife. (17 words)
Berlant and Skinner's turns are both exceptional, straddling the line between overly committed actor and genuinely scary. (18 words)
Actually, it’s Marianne’s straddling of the roles of artist and companion that allows Heloïse’s personality to envelop Marianne’s thoughts—she is not a still life, but rather a complicated woman whose plight ultimately becomes sympathetic to the painter. (42 words)
Straddling the eastern North Carolina-South Carolina border, a region once known as the Carolina Border Belt for its ideal soil conditions, Parker says Chadbourn is a town where the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow are laid bare. (39 words)
She's straddling the line between her country and pop career here, and there’s no better way to symbolize that moment than with this song, one that combines AutoTune and banjos … and somehow pulls it off. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Air Products, the global market leader in hydrogen production, would construct and operate the significant facility, straddling the eastern entrance to the port, on ABP land.
At 3.41am Herbert walked into the room of fellow patient Peter Knight who woke to find the defendant straddling him and strangling him.
He continued to speed along Tipton Road before driving through another set of traffic lights as they changed from amber to red while 'straddling' two lanes.
Meanwhile, if you’re waiting at the junction to go right to Winnall it’s like straddling a railway line.
Straddling the eastern North Carolina-South Carolina border, a region once known as the Carolina Border Belt for its ideal soil conditions, Parker says Chadbourn is a town where the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow are laid bare.
The city straddling the Kansas-Missouri state line long ago shed its old cow-town image, turning into a hipster paradise on the plains.
The Suwalki Corridor is a 60-mile strip of land straddling the border between Poland and Lithuania - and holds massive strategic importance for both Nato and Russia.
A passenger's life was put at risk when she drove at high speed in foggy conditions, sometimes straddling the centre of the road.
A surface low to the west today straddling northern British Columbia and Alberta will head east over the next two days with rain showers.
Berlant and Skinner's turns are both exceptional, straddling the line between overly committed actor and genuinely scary.
But straddling the low-ish seat, that narrow waist let my shimmy around the flickable, low-slung weight.
His cute monsters underwent sick mutations, with “a six-breasted computer-headed beast straddling the fuselage of a downed jet plane”.
Officers found her on the garden patio with Cousans straddling her holding an eight-inch kitchen knife.
Russia is straddling to make noticeable its economic marks inside Africa.
Standing atop a ladder and straddling the wrong side, I found myself looking out from atop the greenhouse.
Actually, it’s Marianne’s straddling of the roles of artist and companion that allows Heloïse’s personality to envelop Marianne’s thoughts—she is not a still life, but rather a complicated woman whose plight ultimately becomes sympathetic to the painter.
One photograph shows her straddling the chair, leaning forward and crossing her arms with hands on her knees.
On the Duck Valley Indian Reservation straddling the Nevada-Idaho line, Lynn Manning-John believes allowing people to collect and return ballots for other voters could improve low turnout.
She's straddling the line between her country and pop career here, and there’s no better way to symbolize that moment than with this song, one that combines AutoTune and banjos … and somehow pulls it off.
Straddling the counties of Derry and Tyrone, the Sperrins weave a mottled tapestry of mountains, bogland and inland tarns, as well as megalithic ruins and prehistoric curiosities.
Common combinations with straddling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- straddling the 33×
- was straddling 3×
- straddling her 2×
- is straddling 2×
- and straddling 2×