Example Sentences

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RaiNao’s music straddles the mystical and the commercial.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The group was almost entirely white, more so than the neighborhoods the bar straddles.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Sam Sacks finds that Ray Nayler’s novel is “skillfully sown with dramatic surprises” even as it straddles the divide “between the speculative and the plausible.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Festivalgoers were spilling out of the tent to catch a glimpse of their percussive, high energy performance that straddles the line between jazz, funk, reggae and carnival.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Mount Elgon straddles the border between Uganda and Kenya, and is not far from Sudan.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston