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Sentences starting with straight

Straight at the waterfall the rustlers drove the burros, and straight through the middle, where the water spread into a fleecy, thin film like dissolving smoke. [13]
Straight she goes to the palace at night, no one knowing but--guess who? [11]
Straight home drove the master-carpenter's reasoning now. [11]
Straight up in the air, out of the mountain, rose a white pillar, spreading out at the top like a palm-tree, or, to compare it to something I have seen, to the Italian pines, that come so picturesquely into all these Naples pictures. [4]
Straight from her that could hardly drag herself about--ah, yes, and has been as handsome a woman as ever was!--straight from her he went to a slut. [11]
Straight off you said, 'Oh, false citizen, to have fed a tramp! [5]
Straight off I heard him sing out--"Below there, ahoy! [5]
Straight he was, and square, and self-contained. [9]
Straight off! [5]

Sentences ending with straight

I have to work at a sum of figures all night to get it straight. [11]
But the man who threw it was not to blame, for he was excited, and a person who is excited never can throw straight. [5]
He go not to the Post for drink; he sell not next year's furs for this year's rations; he shoot straight. [11]
Then he begins to loll--for a person who can consent to loaf his useless life away in ignominious indolence has not the energy to sit up straight. [5]
If nobody's in the wrong, ho' awe you evah going to get the mattah straight? [8]
The course of the river is a curve and the pier is straight. [7]
This person said that the crystal had got bent, and that the mainspring was not straight. [5]
Inwardly he was studying the situation, and wondering how he could put Kingsley's business straight. [11]
I do business straight. [11]
He would play straight. [11]

Short sentences using straight

I'll do it straight out. [4]
Bess gazed only straight ahead. [13]
Abner always seemed so straight. [11]
The evidence is pretty straight. [5]
It's straight talk, Mr. Kerry. [11]
I'm straight, you know that. [11]
There's a straight jump-off! [13]
Came himself straight from Actium. [10]
She's goin' straight for them. [11]
He looks straight before him. [11]

Sentences containing straight two or more times

The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. [5]
If they look straight ahead of them they walk straight, but then they get blind by-and-by; if they look round them and get open-eyed, their feet stumble and they fall. [11]
You look straight onwards as I do, but in you each idea is transfigured, for in your soul invisible shaping powers are at work, which set the crooked straight, clothe the commonplace with charm, the repulsive with beauty. [10]
Reformers like Dimsdale had drawn straight lines of purpose for the salvation of the country, and they had seen these straight lines go crooked under their very eyes, with a devilish smoothness. [11]
To see our comrades, we had to look very nearly straight up at those above us, and very nearly straight down at those below. [5]
St. Luke is careful not to commit himself; he does not say it is the street which is straight, but the "street which is called Straight. [5]

More example sentences with the word straight in them

Old Age.--There, between your eyebrows,--three straight lines running up and down; all the probate courts know that token,--"Old Age, his mark. [6]
You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
I will take you to a turning which leads straight to your durance--and another which leads elsewhere. [11]
But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
And we thought you could make him see this thing straight, if any man could. [9]
She was wonderful yet, with her white hair and straight nose, her erect figure still slight. [9]
There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam--and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft. [5]
Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
But if you would see the very heart and home of cripples and human monsters, both, go straight to Constantinople. [5]
Even now he would be quite incapable of walking forward in a given straight line. [10]
That ugly old woman just looked at me, and if it wasn't the evil eye I shall go straight to the church and drive away the misfortune with holy water. [10]
When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
Two horsemen were within a hundred yards, coming straight at him. [13]
They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there. [2]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
It is long, with a short cross-bar, and the cross-bar is canted out of the straight line. [5]
I am filled with a kind of dismay when I see the great stock-yards of Chicago and Cincinnati, through which flow the vast herds and droves of the prairies, marching straight down the throats of Eastern people. [4]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
The same logic which had carried him to certain conclusions with reference to human nature, this same irresistible logic carried him straight on from his text until he arrived at those other results, which not only astonished his people, as was said, but surprised himself. [6]
She watches me whenever I go out, and sees that I start straight for this office. [8]
If it's daytime when you strike it, bulge right on, straight west from the upper part of the Florida coast, and in an hour and three quarters you'll hit the mouth of the Mississippi--at the speed that I'm going to send you. [5]
At the moment when Virginie turned away with the handsome dish from M. Manotel, and the crowd cheered her gaily, she caught Jean-Jacques' eye, and she came straight towards him. [11]
Think how fast we've traveled; if we had gone straight east we would be long past England by this time. [5]
And so they were, in effect--at least they could exhibit it from their windows, and did--for a consideration--whenever a returning king or hero gave it a fleeting splendour, for there was no place like it for affording a long, straight, uninterrupted view of marching columns. [5]
But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
Only her hands were busy; her eyes were elsewhere, and suddenly they brightened again, for the couple on which she kept them fixed were coming back, straight towards the hedge, and she would soon be able again to hear what they were saying. [10]
This time he went straight to the window, looked at it, tried the stanchions, and then, with an amused attempt at being cunning and hiding his own vigilance, he asked me, with laborious hypocrisy, if I had seen Captain Lancy pass the window. [11]
After breakfast he went straight to the Colonel's store, and fortunately found. [9]
I am sure we have acted in a perfectly straight forward business way.--Now let us look at the thing a moment. [5]
One evening, as we drew to the camp-fire, a deer broke from the woods and ran straight through the little circle we were making, and disappeared in the bushes by the riverside. [11]
Go over the way to Brother C.'s or Brother D.'s; your spine is weak, and they will furnish you a back-board which will keep you straight and make you comfortable. [6]
It was straight way baptized, then it passed from life again and was buried in holy ground. [5]
However, Eagle Bend was two miles wide at this bank-full stage, and correspondingly long and deep; and the boat was steering herself straight down the middle and taking no chances. [5]
The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
But her curiosity was roused, and she went straight to the sack and brought away the paper. [5]
Fact is, it was one of those deals when you can make a million, in a straight enough game; but it comes out of another man--one, maybe, that you don't know; who is playing just the same as you are. [11]
Yet so great was his haste that, instead of making a circuit around their quarter, he dashed straight through it at his utmost speed. [10]
Its first boss was Clive, a sufficiently crooked person sometimes, but straight as a yard stick when compared with the corkscrew crookedness of the second boss, Warren Hastings. [5]
The straight path was before me, and I would not walk in it. [11]
The big mate was at the wheel, and he had the old tub pointed at a star and was holding her straight up the middle of the river. [5]
Bud Dixon would wake up and miss the swag, and would come straight for us, for he ain't afeard of anything or anybody, that man ain't. [5]
There came a voice to a citizen of Damascus, named Ananias, saying, "Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas, for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he prayeth. [5]
T.]) that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, --and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. [5]
Sixty years ago verses made a local reputation, which verses, if offered today to any of our first-class magazines, would go straight into the waste-basket. [6]
And straight before Venters was a scene less striking but more significant to his keen survey. [13]
Finally, with a venomous access of irritation, I said I would leave without the sock; so I rose up and made straight for the door--as I supposed--and suddenly confronted my dim spectral image in the unbroken mirror. [5]
Sitting very straight, Valmond rode steadily down towards the old soldier. [11]
Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
And therewith Sir Uwaine and Sir Gawaine departed a little from them, and then were they ware where Sir Marhaus came riding on a great horse straight toward them. [5]
She was sitting upright in a chair, looking straight before her. [11]
He rode straight up to the Institute. [6]
It extends straight up through the center of the continent like the middle board in a center-table. [5]
When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man. [2]
It kept him up straight to his work. [4]
You can stand up straight in water that is over your head, and from the middle of your breast upward you will not be wet. [5]
She started, sat up straight in her chair, and looked at him indignantly. [11]
Suddenly she sat up straight in bed. [11]
Presently he sat up straight in bed. [11]
It is piled up now, I should say, a thousand feet above the crater, straight into the blue sky,--a pillar of cloud by day. [4]
She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail. [2]
It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands--a long pull and a warm one--but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. [5]
The horse suddenly turned straight towards her, came over slowly, and, with arched neck, dropped his head on her shoulder. [11]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
I have already tried to describe a part of what took place in that hour and a half, although even now I cannot get it all straight in my mind. [9]
Now if we travel a hundred miles in a straight line, we come to the eternal Summer of Sacramento. [5]
He came straight towards the bear, then suddenly made a swift movement to the left, trusting to his greater quickness of movement. [11]
So I just took a look, and shoved along, straight for town. [5]
As she was too poor to have any fear of them, she did not alter her course (which, indeed, she could not have done without going a long way round), but quickened her pace a little, and kept straight on. [12]
So the King told her to have her way, and she rode straight back and bought the captives free in his name and let them go. [5]
So he set to work again straight off next day; and with high confidence, too, intimating with brutal cheerfulness that he should succeed this time. [5]
She came straight to where they stood, with an air of New England directness and determination. [4]
Hawkins went straight to the telegraph office and disburdened his conscience. [5]
He went straight to the stable and saddled the mustang. [6]
Instead of turning to the right, he strode straight to Stephen's table. [9]
Adam hurried straight to the rampart. [10]
She came straight to the point. [11]
He went straight to the point now. [11]
She looked first to the left, then to the right, then straight before her, apparently without seeing anything, and at last slowly settled down, with her two eyes, blank of any particular meaning, directed upon the Colonel. [6]
It's straight on to the Juniper clump, the front door is. [11]
I went straight to the house in Walnut Street where the Captain would be heard of, if anywhere in this region. [6]
He came straight to the heart of the mystery around which they had been maneuvering. [11]
Joan rode straight to the fosse where she had received her wound, and standing there in the rain of bolts and arrows, she ordered the Paladin to let her long standard blow free, and to note when its fringes should touch the fortress. [5]
He went straight to the Foreign Office for news, hoping against hope, was received by Count Mensdorff, who merely came forward and laid his arm about his shoulder with an intense sympathy beyond words. [6]
She moved straight to the council-table, and stood. [5]
Gaston went straight to the castle. [11]
He ran straight to the bank of the river by the side of which the village of Alderbank was built, a little farther down the stream than the house in which he was living. [6]
He was going to tell folks pretty straight how the railroad beat him for mayor. [9]
I went straight to my tailor, put on the clothes and bade him look at them. [11]
I went straight to Mr. Swain's chambers in the Circle, where I found the good barrister and Captain Daniel in their shirt-sleeves, seated between the windows in the back room. [9]
It's the way to make you straight and true, my sweet Krool. [11]
He came straight to his father, giving only a nod to Mistress Felicity, who twisted her head in a demure little way, as though in mockery of his important manner. [11]
Susan went straight to her room, dried her tears so as to write in a fair hand, but had to stop every few lines and take a turn at the "dust-layers," as Mrs. Clymer Ketchum's friend used to call the fountains of sensibility. [6]
I went straight to General Grant's headquarters,--just a plain, rough slat house such as a contractor might build for a temporary residence. [9]
They were going to examine her, but she stopped them, and confessed straight off that her power was from the Devil. [5]
She requires me to drop the lecture platform out of my mind and go straight ahead with Joan until the book is finished. [5]
But the thing to do, straight off, was to make a plan; and we done it. [5]

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