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Example sentences for "straddle"

Lexicographically close words:
stows; stra; strabismus; strack; stracted; straddled; straddles; straddling; strae; strafe
  1. Straddle your hosses and take 'em over to that far corner where we laid the fence down.

  2. You'd see me sweeping along the sky; I'd straddle the moon and ride her down.

  3. Make as wide a straddle as possible, then try to make it wider.

  4. When I say that this method is awkward and incorrect, I do not merely mean that it is ugly, for I suppose that to the unsophisticated eye its attitude is no more ugly than the exaggerated straddle of the correct stemming position.

  5. He dropped straddle of the roof and hung on the best way he could.

  6. Swatty got down on his knees a-straddle of Bony and took Bony's hands in his and pumped him the way he had heard you ought to pump a drowned person.

  7. He came down right on the bum's head, straddle of his neck, and yelled: "Police!

  8. Legs not to cross each other in walking, nor to straddle behind.

  9. Best of all things for her was to be straddle of a white horse loping with a loose bridle among the hills and along the rivers of the west Rootabaga Country.

  10. The Wooden Indian jumped straddle of the Shaghorn Buffalo.

  11. But the doctor drew me off, told me to lie down on my back, and made aunt straddle over me.

  12. Seated, with outstretched legs, on a chair, he got me to straddle over him, and sink down on his stiff upstanding prick.

  13. Ann was to straddle over her aunt and me, and be gamahuched both in cunt and arsehole by our friend.

  14. He then made Amy straddle my chest, her bottom just resting on the top of my breasts, her face turned towards me, thus presenting her delicious buttocks to his gaze.

  15. I just about had strength enough left to straddle him.

  16. Then when I had to straddle a tree to keep from sliding down I got desperate and mad and hoped an old grizzly would happen along to make an end to my misery.

  17. Still standing straddle across his chair, the Bishop called out angrily to the intruder.

  18. Sometimes they were swung out too far and landed straddle on the side of the lighter, straddling the rail, kicking and roaring.

  19. The Bishop sprang up, standing straddle of his long chair, and looking fixedly in the direction of the approaching sound.

  20. We must journey on till our wings grow, Mulla Thimble, or till your long legs can straddle bank to bank.

  21. It is still used in the Malay Islands; the natives place the fire-board on a stump or stone, straddle it and with a pointed drill plow the board back and forth until they produce fire.

  22. You now have a couple of "straddle bugs," that is, poles, the small ends of which rest upon the ground and the butt ends supported by two legs.

  23. You come on a wheelbarrow suddenly when it is in a brown study, and you undertake to straddle it, so to speak, and all at once you find the wheelbarrow on top.

  24. The right to straddle shall belong to the player to the left of ante.

  25. This may go on round the table, each player in turn having the right to increase the straddle before the deal; but the ante may not be increased by any straddle, or by successive straddles, to an amount exceeding one-half of the limit.

  26. C, who has the right to straddle the ante does not do so, so no other player may.

  27. We should pity the poor man for his ignorance, we who believe that when Christ does come he will come in the old-fashioned way, and not in a palace car, or straddle of the basket of a balloon.

  28. So the sinner sprawled among the shadows black While the ranger drifted north beneath the moon, Wabblin' crazy in his saddle, workin' hard to stay a-straddle While the hoofs beat out a slow and sorry tune.

  29. Jest a kid, but lemme tell you When she warms a saddle seat On that outlaw bronc a-straddle She is one that can't be beat!

  30. Where it is permitted to players to raise on the {132} ante before filling the hand, the straddle ceases to have any importance, and is not usually recognised.

  31. The privilege of starting a straddle was confined to the player to the left of the Age.

  32. Now I 'll jest give you two minutes to straddle that mule.

  33. Then Dukes come an' said he'd give me a chance to escape trial fer misconduct, ef I'd straddle my hoss an' make fer home.

  34. The mounting block will be dispensed with so soon as the rider is permitted to throw his right leg over his back and to straddle him without starting.

  35. He should not only vault all over him and straddle him, but should crawl and creep all over him and under him, winding up by vaulting on his back, over his head, and over his quarters.

  36. Wait a minute, the young man with the straddle suggested, speaking eagerly, as if he had been struck by an inspiration.

  37. Milling-machine cutters that are used in pairs and straddle the work, both cutters being of the same diameter.

  38. The stop lever shown in the cut turns up to straddle this screw, and the position of the nuts determines how far each way the block may slide.

  39. D, they are termed twin or straddle mills, both being of the same diameter.

  40. A minute later and they stood on the spot where, according to Donald, the wounded brave had managed to straddle a pony, and make off with his friends.

  41. We did not ride straddle the horse's back we rode sideways.

  42. You mought say dat it was 'bout straddle of de state line and it wasn't no great piece from where us libed to Moscow what was de station on de ole Memfis en Charston Railroad.

  43. The head of the animal lit on the stoop; the fore legs caught a-straddle of the fence; the hind legs kicked in the ditch, and the rest of the critter lay around loose.

  44. He isn't as good a horse as I want to straddle and I sometimes get out of patience with him, but I know his faults as well as his p'ints.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straddle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstain; abut; across; amble; barge; bestride; bundle; bypass; call; carry; clump; cover; cross; drag; encompass; evade; extend; flounce; foot; ford; halt; hitch; hobble; hold; hop; horseback; jolt; jump; lie; limp; lumber; lunge; lurch; mince; mount; option; pace; paddle; pass; peg; perch; plod; prance; put; rack; ramble; range; reach; recline; ride; right; roll; run; saunter; scramble; scuffle; scuttle; shamble; shuffle; sidle; skip; slink; slither; slouch; span; sprawl; spread; stagger; stalk; stamp; step; stomp; straddle; straggle; strap; stretch; stride; strip; stroll; strut; stump; surround; swagger; sweep; swing; toddle; totter; trim; trip; trudge; waddle; wiggle; wobble