Example sentences for: straightforwardly

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

  • , the division into morphemes in Spanish is tamal-es whereas English-speakers took it to be tamale-s ). English has both frijol and frijole , the latter of which may be explained in the same way: English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural frijoles (whose singular is frijol ), from which they back-formed a new singular, frijole (again, the morpheme division in Spanish is frijol-es whereas certain English-speakers took it to be frijole-s ). English frijol , on the other hand, is derived straightforwardly from the Spanish singular.

  • But the results, based on a survey of 10,000 adults, aren't quite so straightforwardly anti-intellectual.

  • (Note: An alternative etymology of hype would derive the word from the Greek hyper , meaning "over," so that to overhype something is to "over-over" it--more straightforwardly logical but not nearly as evocative, in my view.)

  • Gibbon straightforwardly observes at one point, for instance, that the emperor Marcus Aurelius thanked the gods in his Meditations for giving him a wife "so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners."

  • He's the Roger Rabbit of biography, a cartoon figure inserted into Reagan's more straightforwardly filmed movie.


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