Sentence examples for straight glass from inspiring English sources

They first heat straight glass sticks, then twist them into shape, fill them with either neon or argon, and they've got illuminated signs.

Upon pouring, the Guinness bubbles along the edges of the pub glasses would descend normally while their descent in a straight glass was more abbreviated.

Shape up! ReprintsAngela Attwood and her colleagues asked 160 undergraduates—80 women and 80 men to do one of four things: drink beer out of a straight glass; drink beer out of a flute (a glass whose sides curve outward towards the rim); or drink lemonade from one of these two sorts of glass.

Though, as is common practice in studies of this sort, participants were misled about its true nature, and were shown films and asked to do a language test afterwards, to support this misdirection, what Dr Attwood and her team were really interested in was how quickly the various drinks would be drunk.The answer was that a full straight glass of beer was polished off in 11 minutes, on average.

Jobs noted during its introduction that there isn't a single piece of straight glass in its entire construction.

The straight glass bounces light into the cabin, especially when the sun angle is low and catches your eye in a disquieting way.

But that is probably because straight glasses are easier for bar staff to collect and stack, rather than because straight-glass lovers have persuaded their fellow-drinkers of the virtue of their view.

With no preconceptions, we extended our experiments to different types of glasses (at the time, we knew only of the standard conical pub glass and straight glasses).

If a glass is half-full to start with, however, this reference point is lost from the beginning.The upshot, as Dr Attwood reports in the Public Library of Science, is that straight glasses have it.

All the subjects studied were "social drinkers", presumably with some learnt associations about curved and straight glasses.

If this is the case, the result might be true for everyone who has a history of drinking from straight glasses in the UK, but not for other cultures where alcohol isn't drunk like that.