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This precarious straddle renders them — and the brain itself — vulnerable to infections.

Such carefully designed prescription drugs delicately straddle the line between function and sacrifice.

That ability to straddle two sides of an acrimonious divide has served Leavell well—not only in politics, but also in music.

Spend some time with Fiasco and you can watch him straddle that line all day long.

They're mostly girls who straddle the line between geeky and bad-ass, a look familiar to most of today's high-school students.

In an Internet video announcing his candidacy, Brown attempted this straddle without mentioning Schwarzenegger by name.

And I would steal her dolls, pull their dresses for shame over their heads, and set them straddle the banisters.

So they dispatched the tortoise to the earth again, the monkey sitting a-straddle of his back.

The ridge grew narrower, sheerer, and in places they had to straddle it, legs dangling precariously to left and right.

Beside the road we saw a plow-boy straddle, whistling on a stile.

The "Hecla" was a-straddle of the well, and rows of men were tossing at her brake-beams.