straddled

Or, as Jacqueline put it, Danielle "straddled" him in front of her kids.

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On constitutional reform the party still "straddled," declaring that if constitutional changes were to be made that they favored an open convention, chosen on the basis of the Commons, if the people wanted it.

Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835-1860 1916

On the question of free suffrage it "straddled" as it did on a new Democratic doctrine which some of the Whigs were trying to seize, namely, the election of judges by the people for a term of years.

Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835-1860 1916

Such measures are usually "straddled" through a legislature, -- that is, neither party takes the responsibility, but the boss of each machine assigns to vote for them all the men whose seats are secure beyond any ordinary assault of public indignation.

The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889

One of the lead mules got his forward foot over the bridle some way, and I went to fix it, and the team started and "straddled" me.

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But while, his eye chiefly on Clare, he "straddled" like

A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

The jerks have "straddled" for so long that they "lost" their balls.

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Stuka loosed bombs, which straddled the vessel with two near misses.

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The project centers on an carefree 32-year-old who suddenly finds himself straddled with responsibility when he falls for an older woman with two kids, an ex-husband and ex-in-laws.

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She turned to face him and immediately his hand dropped, and his fingers spread and straddled low across her spine, as if she had strings, as if she was the guitar, and he was preparing to play her.

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