So up came the boom, and in came the column, hanging now in true perpendicular, with McGreggor ready to slide down from his straddling seat for the bolting.
One night he stayed on board a coper until a breeze came away; he then insisted on straddling across the bow of the boat on the return journey, and he lost his grip for once in his life and went overboard.
We were straddling among a sporting group in The Chequers bar, when he said, "Better settle over Dexter.
The male usually follows, either close behind, or straddling the female's tail or body.
In the early Tertiary, warm temperate climates extended north to the Arctic Circle, and Eumeces, or at least some of its species, may have had a distribution straddling migration routes to both North America and Asia.
But above their heads the great spider-machine's underparts gleamed dully, straddling the sunken den.
The spider-vehicle lurched and swayed, even its marvelous system of shock-absorbers protesting as it climbed steeply, straddling upward from rock to rock.
As Ben continued the exercise, his breathing became regular, and he opened his eyes with surprise, to see so many of his friends about him, and particularly big Ben straddlinghim and apparently holding him down.
Straddling the bare back of an 'outlaw' with a mean disposition is a darn tough proposition, especially as you have nothing to hold on to except the mane.
Illustration: "Straddling the Bare Back of an Outlaw is a Tough Proposition.
But now the Tamburini, ceremoniously attired in a wrapper, strode in and Paliser, who had been straddling the music-bench, stood up.
Straddling an arm of Cantillon's chair was Fred Ogston, a young man of a type that, even before the war, was vanishing and which was known as about town.
Paliser, straddling the bench, put his hat on the piano and looked at Cassy, who had gone to the window.
The conductor, a fat, unbuttoned, untidy official, wearing spectacles and a walrus moustache, came straddling down the aisle.
But even as she clenched her teeth on that promise there rose before her a picture of the fellow's straddling stride, of the fleering face with its intrepid eyes and jutting, square-cut jaw.
And yet--if that was not Jake Houck's straddling slouch his eyes were playing tricks.
This Colossus straddling toward him would thrash him within an inch of his life.
There is a stiff or straddling gait with the hind legs and some difficulty in turning or in lying down and rising, the act causing a groan.
The bull moves stiffly, with straddling gait, and the right or left half of the scrotum in which the affected testicle lies is swollen, red, and tender, and the gland is drawn up within the sac and dropped again at frequent intervals.
The patient goes stiff in the hind legs, or lame in one hind leg, walking with a straddling gait and swinging the leg outward as it is carried forward.
Dismantled, littered with paper and the fragments of wood and glass of a picture my mother had given him, a great hole in the plaster, a broken chairstraddling in the midst--a hideous spectacle it was.
We went up to make sure, straddling out on them, and bobbing up and down, and choosing a couple of nice forks for where we'd lay the main cross-piece.
But suddenly his heart seemed to fail him, for there he sat, straddling the ridge, one leg on each side of the mountain, the very picture of wild panic.
This is sometimes followed by straddling the left hand by the fore and middle fingers of the right.
Deaf-mute signs: The French deaf-mutes add to the straddling of the index the motion of a trot.
Diddler has thrown his hat on the floor, thrust his stick through the opening in the top, and drawn up a chair upon which he is straddling his long body and little legs in a consequential and impressive attitude.
Jukes, straddling his long legs like a pair of compasses, put on an air of superiority.
The Austrians at Losnitza were advancing up the mountain slopes and took possession of the Tzer and Iverak ridges, straddling the Leshnitza Valley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straddling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
