straight - use in sentences

Preposition: at

  • keeper: Harte hit 2 long range efforts straight at the keeper.

Preposition: through

  • cable: Note: The Ethernet network cable that is supplied with your Network Adaptor is not a crossover cable, but a straight through cable.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • send: More recently, in January 2001 the Section 51 provisions for sending indictable only cases straight to the Crown Court were implemented nationally.

Adjective modifier

  • dire: At the time, Yellowhammers were in dire straights in the Province and were already absent from two Counties.

Modifies a noun

  • line: Normal press ups, aim to keep a straight line through your back.
  • edge: The straight edge at the top left shows the Si 110 plane.
  • jacket: Are they at best a waste of time, or at worst a straight jacket for the primary curriculum?
  • defeat: Portsmouth Reserves fell to their fourth straight defeat after getting caned by Chelsea Reserves tonight at Fratton Park.
  • swap: It should be a straight swap for your existing wired keyboard and mouse.
  • path: Pull Phase From the start position the hand follows a straight path pulling underneath the center of the body.

Modifying Another Word

  • fairly: Hole 1. Par 5 S/I 7. A fairly straight forward hole to start with.
  • relatively: Past Dean Bridge the river bends initially to the left then runs through a relatively straight course through a remarkably deep dell.
  • back: Coming out of the chicane, going to the back straight to Canada Corner, the bike almost stopped.
  • pretty: It's a pretty straight, stony, tree lined track in a gully, cutting across between two roads.
  • almost: Carter slots over the penalty with his left boot from almost straight in front of the posts.
  • dead: The next stretch is dead straight and forms part of the boundary of the LBs of Greenwich and Bromley.

Used with adjective complement

  • finish: The championship is in our grasp now and we are all in the finishing straight.
  • go: It is the teaching of the Bible alone that goes straight to the basic issue.

Preposition: in

  • eye: The bottom of one of my walking poles hit me straight in the eye.
  • front: Carter slots over the penalty with his left boot from almost straight in front of the posts.

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