straightly

Example Sentences

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Seth Meyers is stupendous at hooks and jabs delivered at a lightning pace, but straightly, leaving the performance of absurdity to news headlines.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

More often, though, the slats are aligned straightly, recalling hard-edged 1960s minimalism; one all-black piece is titled “Stella,” after Frank Stella’s pinstriped “Black Paintings.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2014

A couple of voices cried "shame," but Churchill insisted: "I am giving you the story quite straightly and bluntly."

From Time Magazine Archive

But there was more: ''It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

From Time Magazine Archive

The water-way ran straightly for some distance, and then curved down into the marshes at its own will, to spread into swamps.

From The Solitary Farm by Hume, Fergus