Example sentences for: straight

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

  • The breakdown occasions a jigsaw of memories: of an upstate New York boyhood dominated by a local-hero dad; of doomed attempts to make it in the straight world of Manhattan advertising; of romantic humiliations at the hands of perky centerfold blondes; and, finally, of dreamlike interludes in sadistic mental hospitals.

  • For years, Andersen had the reputation of "thinking straight and talking straight" and doing what it felt was right in connection with challenging accounting and reporting issues - even if the client didn't like the answer.

  • These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.

  • Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.

  • In the presence of GTP, D86K formed a mixture of tubes and straight twin protofilament pairs (Fig.


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