Sentence examples for instead of straight from inspiring English sources
"Look, he puts his hand out far to the left instead of straight back.
During the subway ride, he thought about the reason toast was cut on the diagonal, instead of straight across.
He changed her style, having Torres look at the bottom of the pool instead of straight ahead.
It's partly Hollande's fault because he seems to go this way and that instead of straight ahead," Albinet said.
He proudly lists the young prospects he persuaded to go to college instead of straight to the minor leagues.
Housing benefit will be soon be paid to tenants instead of straight to their landlords in one of the biggest housing benefit changes.
Mindy Eisenberg Stark, an accountant in Scarsdale, N.Y., said another problem at annual meetings arises when a co-op has "cumulative voting" instead of "straight voting".
But I suspect updates to the app may allow you to see threads and perhaps even use Push Notifications instead of straight-up SMS (similar to the way GroupMe recently switched things up a bit).
It was disturbing that instead of straight-away dismissing this stunt, the New York Times took the bait and headlined their report on the Israeli leader's speech and meeting with President Obama -- "Netanyahu Sees Arab Alliance Aiding Mideast Peace".
Instead of straight-up time trials, cars complete "Dial In" runs, in which the goal is to come as close as possible to the estimated speed (how fast your car can possibly make a single run).
