Example sentences for: straight-line

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

  • It was then but a small step to the space warp, permitting faster-than-light (FTL to SF pros) travel by straight-line shortcutting across the curves of space.

  • By the early 1930s, two systems of sewing and assembly emerged in the men’s segment of the apparel industry: the progressive bundle system (PBS) and the straight-line system (SLS).

  • The shortest time frame assumes maximum speed without regard to overspeed warnings, a straight-line path, and no time allowed for maneuvering or slowing to aim and crash the airplane into its target.

  • The straight-line system (SLS) also attempted to apply Tayloristic notions to apparel but in a way that had more in common with scientific management techniques used in other manufacturing industries.

  • The net length, i.e. the straight-line distance between the cell body and growth cone, was measured in pixels and then converted to micrometers using a known physical standard.


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