Sentence examples for played straight from inspiring English sources

Tradition, played straight.

It all played straight into their hands.

Played straight, it would surely be tiresome.

(In one routine, he played straight man to Bert Lahr).

He has not played straight with many of them.

"We played straight too much and we kicked too much.

She moved back to Chicago in 1980 and started her own band in 1981, which played straight-ahead jazz.

(It is indicative of Bear's skill that he played straight-up classic seventies rock with the Brooklyn trio Earl Greyhound, from 2003 to 2005.

Mr. Mouzon played straight-ahead jazz as well as fusion throughout his career, making a point of fluency in both styles.

Chamberlain countered he could have scored 140 if the Knicks "had played straight-up basketball".

Furthermore, she argued that if the episode had been played-straight, then "Syzygy" could have "been a horror classic".