Example sentences for: straight

How can you use “straight” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The alternative to Egan's alternative is the equally strange culture of people who, given eight months of February, choose to fly straight into the teeth of the beast.

  • In a recent study [ 15] we found that FtsZ protofilaments could adopt either a straight or curved conformation.

  • One of the best things about David Lynch's marvelous new film The Straight Story is its play on "straight"--which is both the name of the protagonist, the failing septuagenarian Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), and a description of the movie's one-thing-after-another mode of storytelling.

  • Why did you choose two pompous, straight, white ultranerds for your subjects?

  • Perhaps Leon Weiseltier will check in and set us straight.


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