Sentence examples for after straight from inspiring English sources
SB: He wrote a version of it in the seventies, after Straight Time, which Dustin Hoffman had optioned.
The film comes from producer Scott Bernstein, currently riding high after Straight Outta Compton posted a $60.2m opening weekend in the US, and is still seeking a director.
As it went on, "Vanderpump Rules" began to remind me of an old saying: that, after straight couples break up, all ex-girlfriends are "crazy," while all ex-boyfriends are either "confused" or "assholes".
With discussion partly focusing on an enlightened, laidback attitude to race relations, Creed reinforces the sense that 2015 – after Straight Outta Compton's $161m gross – has seen African-American film intersect with the mainstream more comfortably than before.
At one point, William Ivey Long, one of her prospective co-parents, a costume designer with whom she shared a long and tormented history, describes having wondered, "Why didn't you go after straight men if we were going to fail you as a group?" Good question! the reader might think.
In bankruptcy, convertible bondholders get paid back after straight bondholders but before equity investors.
Kenseth's consecutive victories came after 36 straight winless starts.
"What's he really after?" a straight friend asked.
After straight-set victories in the quarterfinals against unseeded opponents, Petra Kvitova and Maria Sharapova will meet in the semifinals Thursday.
He died, it is true, but only, as one of his admirers said, after "straight-arming the death angel" for more than an hour.
Soon after straight-talking George W. Bush became president, Candy Crowley of CNN recalled having asked him, years before, about "the nuance of your answer".
