straight
Example Sentences
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We knew it was a risk, but we walked straight up the gravel drive and knocked loudly on the huge front door.
From Literature
The Bank of Canada left its policy rate unchanged Wednesday, at 2.25%, the third straight time officials made no change after a series of meetings.
That marked a second straight quarter of decline, the first back-to-back drop recorded, and outweighed the increase in the population over the first six months of last year.
Even before the war in Iran broke out at the end of last month, traders had widely expected the Fed to hold interest rates steady for a second straight meeting.
Home sales fell for a fourth straight month in February and new listings declined, though they remain well above long-term averages.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
