Sentence examples for straight for example from inspiring English sources

It is easy to define the area of a shape whose edges are straight; for example, the area of a rectangle is just the product of the lengths of two adjoining sides.

As the 10th and last child of a Calvinist minister, he would surely have been set straight, for example, about the meaninglessness of Good Works, which the playwright personifies as a creature who, despite her initially pitiful and ailing condition, proves capable of routing the Devil himself.

There's a vast difference socially and politically between men who identify as gay and men who have casual same-sex encounters but still consider themselves straight, for example.

Quirky shows like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," for example, can still bubble up on basic cable.

Should gay and straight scouts, for example, be allowed to share a tent on a camping trip?

If I come out to a straight man, for example, he always seems to take it in a sexual way.

Grizzly bears and other animals that now face transit through public-private checkerboard lands in the Swan Valley, northeast of Missoula, will have a straight path, for example, between the Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Mission Mountains Wilderness.

You can't start off as a production editor straight away, for example, he suggests.

It will also mean that the company potentially could start to create new revenue streams on top of the commissions that it takes on rentals: these can be by way of affiliate deals, or straight advertising, for example.

One might volunteer straight away, for example, only to have her confident strut and entire story sandblasted away by the blinding spotlight that gives the illusion of being very large and about five feet away.

In cases where the beam-induced motions may not be modelled by straight tracks, for example for bent or zig-zag tracks, this method will not yield good results.