Straddled meaning

He straddled a chair and leaned his arms across the top of it while he sipped his coffee.

She pulled up a chair across from him and straddled it, her direct gaze settling on him.

Depeche Mode makes music that straddled genres, and devotees of a variety of different music styles claim them as their own.

Part heavy metal, part acoustic and full of dark and sometimes eerie harmonies, the band straddled a unique line that made them difficult to classify.

The goth music movement closely paralleled the early 1980s post-punk movement, and many artists of the time, such as The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Birthday Party, straddled both similar genres.