straddle

Example Sentences

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The biggest worry was that Iran would close the critical Strait of Hormuz, a narrow body of water straddling the country’s southern coast.

From MarketWatch

Needed: The most that we would pay for the near-term straddle, with the price of the straddle expressed as a percentage of the underlying stock price.

From MarketWatch

I run a public company that straddles the worlds of software and AI, and I’ve seen this movie before.

From The Wall Street Journal

Canada’s count, at more than 250,000, doesn’t fully capture dual citizenship, or the flow of Americans whose daily lives straddle the border.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lower and lower his back arched as his poor knees bent, eventually bringing him flat on the ground with the table straddled above him.

From Literature