How to use "directly" in a sentence
Sentences
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists
He avoided walking directly in front of the bench, partly from shyness, partly because he did not want to attract her father's attention
Keep to your left but not directly behind you
We wanted to contact your grandmother directly, but she never goes out
Exhausted, slightly tipsy, she went directly to bed and fell into a sound sleep.
She edged around the pit, determined to make the hateful bastard stop what he was doing, but he took a step away from her for every step that she took toward him, and he always stayed directly across the hole from her
He didn't tell her directly, but his behavior said as much
"Well, if someone had a guilty conscience, why wouldn't he approach you directly?"
George had been directly responsible for the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars and, eventually, for the control of hundreds of agents in a dozen countries
You will respond to me only when I speak directly to you
the growth rate of the parietal spot is directly proportional to the number of injections the boy's been given
The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.
We went directly to the restaurant and had a small meal
And then, instead of leaving ten thousand pounds to his sister directly, he left the money to Laura