straight line

Example Sentences

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A quick look at the chart shows a nearly straight line upward, and you wouldn’t be wrong to think they look ridiculously overbought.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

But his path from quarterback at Northeastern Louisiana and Appalachian State to where he is now was anything but a straight line.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

As JPMorgan’s stock chart shows, the march to a record close on Jan. 6 wasn’t a straight line.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Gaps or spoofing may create straight line segments across land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

But if they drew the distance as a straight line on the map, the number of miles they had traveled was much shorter—by about half.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple