straight person
Example Sentences
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Sprinting around New York’s Flat Iron Building with Paul Rudd, he exclaimed, “I’ve been working 20 years for this! I need a straight person to go see ‘Bros!’”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022
Acknowledging that gay people exist and deserve equal treatment is not a political act any more than doing the same for a straight person is.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2021
“I lived almost a decade playing a womanizing straight person on ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ and I enjoyed myself immensely.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2021
Nevertheless, the very notion that Alexandra finds ways to navigate this period of low intelligence, low expectation, and low life expectancy makes her something more than the straight person in this muddy morass.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2020
I want to add that I don’t see one straight person here, but I don’t think it’s relevant.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
