Example sentences for: straddle

How can you use “straddle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • BMIs straddle the worlds of fact and fiction.

  • This step was followed by the use of another in-house software tool to divide up the arm sequence, trying to simultaneously optimize two constraints: to avoid the creation of gene models that straddle the boundaries between two accessions; and to maintain a close correspondence to the pre-existing Release 2 accessions in GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ [ 11, 12, 13].

  • The play focuses on the inner conflict of a young scientist, an African American woman who tries unsuccessfully to straddle the opposing world views of her profession and her family.

  • Although economic and social considerations often supercede scientific assessments, science will continuously be called upon to deliver management options that will straddle the needs for conservation and production, even in areas where there is only subsistence fishing (Box 1).

  • A hollow cube 110 m (360 ft) high and 106 m (347 ft) wide, it could straddle the Champs-Elysées and tuck Notre-Dame underneath it.


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