Although most of the bombs straddled her, one bomb penetrated her deck amidships. She was heavily straddled and hit and took fire. The council straddled both sides of the conflict, alternately admonishing and upholding Calvin. Thoomi looks for her father, finding him straddled atop a tree, dead. The last bombs in this stick straddled "West Point" and showered her with shrapnel. After firing three salvos, she straddled the Polish destroyer . Gen. John Bell Hood's division straddled the turnpike, loosely connected with Jackson's right flank. A fur-trading settlement quickly grew at the crossroads that straddled the banks of the river. The back wheels straddled two rows, and the unit could cultivate four rows at once. It originally straddled the main Roman road into the city, now the Corso Cavour. The center straddled the coast before heading inland. Miller also created Elektra, who straddled the conventional boundary between love interest and villain. "Rise Up October" straddled the Black Lives Matter Campaign, and brought several protests. Coles County straddled a timberline in the southern half and prairie in the north. More than 40 exchanges had territory that straddled the new boundary.