Sentence examples for giving a straight answer from inspiring English sources

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She bursts out laughing before giving a straight answer.

Rather than giving a straight answer, Warren smiled and said merely that the conversation had been a long one.

He conjures up Armstrong's pop-eyed fanaticism in the cause of winning, and his knack of never giving a straight answer.

The State Department responded by saying that Baghdad was not giving a straight answer on resuming inspections after a break of nearly four years.

During a hustings on LBC Radio it was put to the leadership candidates that Mr Corbyn was leading in the polls because the other three candidates appeared incapable of giving a straight answer to "simple questions".

Fox News, which hosted the debate, encouraged viewers to use the Twitter hashtag #dodge to indicate when they thought candidates were not giving a straight answer — and Mr. Romney received considerably more dodges than the other candidates.

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He could not give a straight answer".

Clegg would not give a straight answer.

She cannot give a straight answer to the question".

Please give a straight answer, which can include technical stuff.

At headquarters, nobody can give a straight answer.

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