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Straddling

Straddling \Strad"dling\,

  1. Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hu

  2. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.
    --Knight.

Straddling

Straddle \Strad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Straddling.] [Freq. from the root of stride.]

  1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

  2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

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straddling

vb. (present participle of straddle English)

Usage examples of "straddling".

Roberto laughed victoriously at her ineffectual struggling, and shifted around until he was straddling her buttocks.

Bodies were straddling the court’s wrecked fittings, small orange fires gnawed hungrily at various jagged chunks of composite, and hatred was beaming through each of the doors like an emotive X ray.

In his youth, Luca dreamed of the land returned to immense parkland vistas with proud white and gold cities straddling the horizon.

Its straddling feature makes use of cipher equivalents of two different lengths—lengths usually of one digit and two digits.

The latter three keys generated the keys for two transpositions and the coordinates of a straddling checkerboard through a process that was complicated but that possessed a kind of tractive logic, was meant to be memorized, and probably would be after two or three run-throughs.

A complication greatly increases the difficulty of finding this pattern, just as the straddling effect increases the difficulty of getting a valid frequency count.

Still kissing her, he pulled her onto his lap, so that she was straddling his thighs.

He shifted her weight toward him, pulling her over and on top of him, so that she was straddling his lap as still they kissed.

He reached for her and she went willingly into his arms, once again straddling his lap.

Finally he pulled her on top of him, settling her with her face tucked against his neck and her legs straddling his hips.

Sam shifted position, getting to his knees and straddling her right leg, with her left one hooked over his arm.

The two men didn't look as if they had moved, Clinton lying on his belly, Price straddling him.

She took a long look at Ramon’s throbbing prick and took a deep breath before straddling his lap.

She stood up and kicked off her heels, straddling the boys’ hips and guiding their two cocks towards her sex.

I giggled and pushed him back on the carpet, straddling his hips and guiding his cock inside my pussy.