Sentence examples for read straight through from inspiring English sources

As a child, he read straight through the sixteen-volume encyclopedia his parents gave him.

Consequently, it should probably be enjoyed slowly rather than read straight through.

I don't think Marr necessarily meant it be read straight through.

It's not a thing to read straight through so much as attentively skip around in, like a live double album.

These are absorbing volumes even if read straight through, and they make for a valuable reference work that will reward occasional dipping in.

As with other collections of very short works, dipping in and out might also be a good idea - I just read straight through.

Many assume that reading any text means reading straight through, from beginning to end, as one would a novel.

Also, remember books that are good to dip in and out of as opposed to reading straight through.

But too much of a good thing generally leaves one cranky, and reading straight through "Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis" classifies as a binge.

"Madame Defarge" and "Dotheboys Hall" could be played for hours in the back yard, but I didn't read the great dark novels until I was in my teens when, instead of going to camp or waiting tables, I lay for entire summers in the swing on our screened porch in Ann Arbor, reading straight through my mother's bound sets of 19th-century fiction.

MacAdam suggests that Pessoa's book is better for dipping into at random and repeatedly, than for reading straight through.