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straight line

adverb as in as the crow flies

noun as in beeline

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Justin Bieber This wonky first pitch offers further proof that Justin Bieber struggles with the definition of a straight line.

By the end of his relatively lengthy address, Pierre had drawn a straight line between supporting the NRA and loving freedom.

It demonstrates the greatness of ink-painting as a genre if it had evolved in a straight line from the past.

You can draw a fairly straight line from Helms to Karl Rove, who tamed and adapted the approach for a national audience.

So can you draw a straight line from Jobs to Zuckerberg—or are they Apples and oranges?

The primal rigidity of the straight line yields later on to the freedom of an organ.

His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.

The ryot, of course, familiar with each yard of the route, practically followed a straight line.

He rushed forward in a straight line, as usual, breaking and tearing everything.

It is seldom either more or less than a straight line ruled from one end of the kingdom to the other.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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