How to use "straight" in a sentence

'I thought he'd driven straight to work.'

I can't walk straight

I can't walk straight, I can't think for more than a few seconds, and I'm losing blood, fast.

I took it - and ran straight into a group of big men on the other team! Crash! It was like that all afternoon.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

You can either play the game right: you play it straight

She'd bumped straight into the man, who'd dropped a bagful of dried food packets, spreading them everywhere.

Sala kept on running, forcing herself to look straight ahead.

She knew it would be best to go straight to the earth apartment, but she felt a little afraid to do that

"Well, I can recommend it," said Cham, looking straight at Sala

With my straight hair and badly-fitting clothes I looked like an awkward schoolgirl.

'I'll take my coffee in the lounge,' Mrs Van Hopper told the waiter, 'straight away.'

I stood straight again, brushing the rain from my head

He walked straight into the house and spoke to Frith.

I suddenly sat up straight

Frank looked straight ahead.

Maxim went on staring straight in front of him.

I would have to wear a wig over my own straight hair

I brushed back my own straight hair

I sat up, looking straight in front of me.

Tina Evans sat straight up in bed, certain that she had heard a noise in the house

She sat straight up in bed.

Her nose was so straight that some might think it was severe

"You can go straight from office work to scuba diving without changing clothes."

"Why don't we just go straight to the restaurant?"

He was sitting here for eight hours straight."

She took a step toward him, but then she realized that he might have come here straight from a computer in one of the other third-floor offices

The vehicle skidded, then dropped a hundred feet straight onto rocks

I can pour anything straight or over ice, but I can't even mix vodka and orange juice properly."

She sat straight up, the sheets knotted in her fists, catapulted out of a nightmare

"It's going to feel like a freight train ramming straight through you," Vince said

Tina wasn't able to cover her ears; her arms hung straight down at her sides, frozen, rigid, hands fisted, and she couldn't find the will or the strength to lift them

She would have gone straight to the police, the newspapers - or both.

He had a well-formed face with high cheekbones, a narrow straight nose, and thin lips

Aaron Zachariah, younger than Dombey, clean-shaven, with straight brown hair, leaned over one of the computers, reading the data that flowed across the screen

After the bellman left, Elliot engaged the deadbolt, hooked the security chain in place, and firmly wedged the heavy straight-backed desk chair under the knob.

Alexander suddenly realized what their edge was, what kept them going, and he sat up straight in his chair

They stood, indecisive, looking left, then right, and then straight ahead.

We'll have to take you straight to McDonald's and pack you full of burgers and fries."

Eighty, ninety, a hundred feet they soared, soared straight up into the night.

I got up to open it and Mrs Protheroe came straight in

Then I went straight across to the study and looked through the window

So I went straight back into the Blue Boar and was lucky enough to see Dr Stone.

I went straight home afterwards, and Mrs Protheroe called at about half-past six to borrow a gardening magazine

Then suddenly, the trees in the wood ahead of me were pushed to the side and a second enormous tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, straight towards me

If I had been alone, I think I would have taken my chance and gone straight across country

I have a faknee-int memory of the foot of a Martian coming down within twenty metres of my head, going straight into the loose stones

If the ship had fired one shell, they would have sent it straight to the bottom with the Heat-Ray.

It went straight towards a second Martian, and was within a hundred metres of it when the Heat-Rav hit it

Instead, they took fresh blood from living creatures and used a tube to put it straight into their own bodies

I shook violently and could hardly stand straight

It seemed that it had been driven blindly straight at the house, and had been turned over when the house fell on it.

However, it was not straight

We sailed straight into the fishing boat with the three old fishermen! At first, we didn't know what was happening

'Hello, hello, my people!' And she goes straight to the baby

He left the room, went straight to his carriage, and drove away.