Straddling

"Straddling" in a Sentence (5 examples)

The car was straddling the tracks when it was struck by a train.

Never shift gears when you're crossing railroad tracks, as it could cause your car to stall straddling the tracks.

She's straddling his dick.

These agreements came out of high-level Inter-Korean talks held Tuesday in Panmunjom, the so-called "peace village" straddling the border where the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting in the Korean War was signed.

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator will begin operations later this year at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Scientists believe the new atom-smasher, known as the or LHC for short, will help them answer questions about the origin of the universe. The collider is 27 kilometers in circumference, straddling the French-Swiss border near Geneva, buried as deep as 150 meters underground.

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