Sentence examples for close to straight from inspiring English sources

Grinderman is as close to straight rock as Cave will allow.

A few unexpected behaviors are found at arc angles that are close to straight bars.

Lauper essentially lays out the events of her life in something close to straight chronology, with digressions, in the rhetoric of lunchtime chat.

Basically, the healthiest typing position is one where the hands are close to straight and flat, and aligned with your wrists and arms.

Suddenly, the guitars dropped back in quiet unison, then surged forward again for an intense but brief coda that was as close to straight rock and roll as anything the band played that night.

The music comes unstuck when it veers too close to straight jazz, as in the freak-out in Knee Deep in the North Sea or the drum solo in Clipper.

Trouble is, Fink says her identity is much closer to "straight" than "queer".

The lines look like accidents, post-production manipulations, or a 1990's internet browser trying to render an image on screen over dial-up, but they're made entirely in camera, and are, like Pelle Cass's work, closer to "straight photographs" than they might appear.

Use the spokes on the one side to pull the rim closer to straight and loosen the other side to allow the rim to be pulled.

Monolayer was found to spread in a teardrop shape initially, which evolved into a wedge shape whose close-to-straight edges were detectable visually due to the wave-damping effect of the monolayer.

Since touring with Lilith Fair, the demonically divine Ms. Bernhard has angrily inched closer and closer to straight-ahead rock 'n' roll.