Example sentences for: straight

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

  • Even when the Big Guy himself is not explicitly mentioned--and he's mentioned plenty--the current crop of tabloid offerings brims with so many transcendent crises (life-threatening illnesses, brushes with sudden death, ruminations on mortality, profligate lives steered straight and narrow) that it feels like one long episode of Touched by an Angel .

  • The NIS-3 findings may run counter to his position, but it is important for Besharov and Dembosky, and for readers of Slate, to get the facts straight.

  • The straight conformation was seen in single protofilaments assembled from purified FtsZ with GTP or the slowly hydrolyzable analog GMPCPP, and in protofilament sheets assembled with DEAE dextran.

  • The magazine explains why the president's poll numbers are so high: 1) he courts them ("like a kid who gets straight A's by flattering the teacher"); and 2) polling questions are phrased with a calculation and nuance that are positively, well, Clintonesque.

  • In Germany the nearest thing to a straight collocations dictionary is E. Agricola's regularly republished Wörter und Wendungen , written for Germans but highly valuable for foreigners using German at an advanced level.


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