One could feel the big body heaving at one's back as it lay huddled against the canvas partition, with rolling head and arms spread wide, and knees that straddled and sagged.
Said the Chief, moving sharply towards where the Wireless mast straddled over the telegraph-cabin: "He has adopted the only means of exit by which it was possible for him to escape.
And they reminded him of the three tall Wireless masts rearing over the Admiralty at Whitehall, and Marconi House, in the Strand, and the little one that straddled over the telegraph-cabin on Fanshaw's Flying Ground.
She was more like Jabez too, which give me a heap of amusement, seein' which one was goin' to win when they straddled a question.
An' I slid outside an' straddled a pony an' rode till the dawn wind blew all the fever out of me an' let the sunshine in.
No longer wary, West broke through the last of the bushes andstraddled into the open.
West, beside himself with rage, swung on the little man and straddled forward a step or two threateningly.
Triumph rode in his voice and straddled in his gait.
He straddled up and down in front of his men, menacing them with knotted fists and sulky eyes.
Mr. Luce came off his perch and fell on his back in the mud, and Constable Nute straddled him instantly and held him down.
Taylor, only dimly realizing that there was something in his stove that was going to cause serious trouble, obeyed the exhortations screamed at him, cut away his horse, straddled the beast's back and fled with the rest.
He could see him now as he straddled mightily on the rug before the library fire, in his pink and cords, his spurred tops splashed with mud, and grey on the inner sides with the sweat of his horse.
Shooting his feet between the straddled legs of his adversary, he flung his left arm around his head, threw all his weight on to it and brought himself and Rivoli crashing heavily to the ground.
It was all done so cussed quick that the first thing I knew I'd straddledmy horse and was makin' tracks.
That was way back in the sixties, when I was as wild a lad as ever straddled a pony.
He straddled his legs and watched his friend's back, tilting his head toward his shoulder with a magpie expression of impertinent knowledge.
When he returned he did not re-seat himself, but straddled the hearth-rug, holding up his coat-tails although no fire was burning.
Like Apollyon in Pilgrim's Progress, it "straddled over the whole breadth of the way.
While he had winked his eyes, so it seemed to him, the true course had fairly straddled away from the lubber line.
He straddled easily over the schooner's scant freeboard and came aft, and was greeted cordially by Captain Candage.
When he released her and went at his task, she leaned upon his shoulder and watched him as he straddled his parallels across the chart.
Illustration: The frogs came up first, with their legs straddled wide.
Great trestles built of trunks straddled out over the roaring water, their lower ends notched in the rocks, their tops ballasted by heavy stones.
Beside it therestraddled a couple of spinning-wheels.
Every house has its well or wells, straddled over by a huge hoisting-derrick, of the same construction one may see in Spain, or Southern France, or elsewhere.
Johnny climbed up, straddled into the seat ahead of Bland.
His three companions were hurrying that way, lured by a paper which Bud was waving high above his head as he straddled the top rail of the fence.
He straddled the Pacific ocean one day and prowled around in China, and saw a cross-eyed pigeon-toed midget with buck teeth.
In climbing between the box and the wall, it straddled the space, resting its hands on the palms and tips of the out-stretched fingers with the knuckles bent at an acute angle, and thus mounted to the top with the greatest facility.
To make the imitation complete, he had borrowed the frame of an old pair of spectacles, and went about with it straddled over his nose.
All backed by our own consciences; as if Apollyon straddled quite across the way, and stopped us from going on-(Andronicus).
But the suspense was soon over, for the nearer bushes parted suddenly and out upon the tote-road floundered an immense moose, his bulbous nose wagging, his bristly mane twitching, his stilted fore legs straddled defiantly.
The old man straddled his legs, leaned forward and set his right forefinger into his left palm with the confident air of one who is prepared to prove his contentions.
Actually Adrianople straddledthe only practical line of communication for effective operations against the enemy's capital.
That army has got right away from its base, with the one line of railway straddled by the enemy, and with the ox as practically the only means of transport.
Why, doggone it, yuh straddled him like yuh was just climbing a fence!
Huge gold spectacles with glasses so thick that they distorted his eyes, straddled a great beak-like nose.
He straddled a stool and took the foot in the cup of his hand.
He straddled his horse again and went flying off down the road to the store.
She was a fine animal with a strain of Arab in her, and when the Schoolmaster had mouthed and gentled White Socks, as Deirdre christened the colt, she straddled him bareback and Davey had his old Lass to himself.
He caught one of the grazing thoroughbreds and straddled it with an ease that filled the author's soul with envy.
He's a cowboy, as fine a youngster as ever straddled a horse.
It galled him to be straddled as if he were a hobby horse; it reflected on his dignity to be yanked about by the ears and turned round by the tail.
Tommy leaned his rifle against the barn, straddled the heavy rooster and, face flushed, lifted him, limp and dangling, to his feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straddled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
