straddles in English

verb
1
sit or stand with one leg on either side of.
he turned the chair around and straddled it
synonyms:sit/stand astridebestridemountget on
noun
1
an act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart.
Well the toe-touch is where you jump and your legs go out like a straddle, as if you were sitting on the floor with your legs out in a straddle , and you've got to touch your toes.
2
a simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down.
When they think that the saturation point has been reached, they reverse their position: they replace their existing straddles with the opposite ones.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "straddles" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "straddles", or refer to the context using the word "straddles" in the English Dictionary.

1. The village straddles the frontier.

2. This bridge straddles the Eurasia.

3. 1 Mount Elgon straddles the border between Kenya and Uganda.

4. 7 Mount Elgon straddles the border between Kenya and Uganda.

5. The all - welded, A - frame pylon straddles the deck.

6. Bamako is the capital of Mali and straddles the Niger river

7. Futuristic cowboy straddles a rocket attempting to lasso various robot - cattle.

8. Moreover, the actual Bridge of the Americas straddles the famous Panama Canal.

9. Coahuila, one of Mexico’s major steel producers, straddles the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains

10. Appearances is a one woman audio show that straddles the line between fiction and truth

11. He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.

12. Once the capital of Anjou, Angers straddles the Maine River at the western end of the Loire Valley

13. "Belonging is a heart wrenching, suspenseful and fascinating odyssey that straddles, and seeks to uncover, an uncharted, inaccessible, unfathomable past

14. Dreamy and elegant, this Chinoiserie-inspired floral straddles the line of modern and traditional for a truly transitional and versatile pattern

15. The Basque Country is not an independent state but a region in the western Pyrenees that straddles the border between France and Spain

16. * (Revelation 17:10-13) False religion straddles the back of this political beast, attempting to influence its decisions and to control its direction.

17. Synonyms for Bestrides include straddles, bestraddles, mounts, sits astride, spans, stands astride, gets astride, gets on, steps over and hops on to

18. As someone who straddles the fence with a leg in both the rehabilitation and fitness fields, I have mixed feelings about the use of Correctives.

19. What is a Criminologist? Criminologists do work that straddles the line between sociology and law enforcement. Like sociologists, they study human social behaviors but they often do …

20. The increasing popularity of "genre Blends," or fiction that straddles the traditional labels, means greater pleasure for readers but a greater challenge for readers' advisory

21. Located just south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the town of Alice Springs straddles the usually dry Todd River on the northern side of the MacDonnell Ranges.

22. The 000-hectare (3000-acre) Bialowieza Primeval Forest, which straddles the border between Poland and Belarus, is one of the largest unpopulated woodlands remaining in Europe.

23. AS REGARDS THE LOANS THEMSELVES , THE STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT LOANS TOWARDS WHICH THE WORLD BANK IS MOVING REPRESENT A CATEGORY WHICH STRADDLES BOTH PROJECT AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS FINANCING .

24. Residents of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which straddles the old border, pay 30-50% of their income in rent, says Franz Schulz, the district's mayor. "That's why gentrification is so intense."

25. Sam Rivers' second Blue Note album, Contours, is an excellent quintet date which, like FUCHSIA SWING SONG before it, straddles post-bop and the avant garde with loose ideas given gorgeous shape through top-notch playing.

26. Cairo (ؓلقاهرة al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East (the regions which it conveniently straddles)

27. Cairo (pronounced KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East (the regions which it conveniently straddles)

28. The city of Allende is located at , at a height of 380 meters (1,250 ft) above sea It straddles Federal Highway 57, with state capital Saltillo some 390 kilometers (240 mi) away to the south, while the international border crossing at Piedras Negras, Coahuila (across the Río Bravo del Norte from Eagle Pass, Texas, United States) is some 55 kilometers (34 mi) to the north.

29. Archway is an inner neighbourhood of London, forming part of the London Borough of Islington.It is located 3.8 miles (6 km) north of Charing Cross and is identified as a district centre in the London Plan, surrounded by mixed-density residential development.It straddles the A1 in London and is named after an erstwhile local landmark, the high, single-arched Archway Bridge which crossed the