straight line

Example Sentences

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Fane's laboratory is particularly interested in the observation that the relationship between age and cancer does not appear to follow a simple straight line.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

Past and present don’t collide so much as they fuse together; they aren’t two opposing places in time, but rather, a straight line.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

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

The supply chain is a straight line of dependencies: Filipino consumers rely on Vietnamese rice, and Vietnamese farmers rely on Chinese fertiliser.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Frodo reckoned they had eighteen miles to go in a straight line.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien