Sentence examples for straight means from inspiring English sources

And – here are his secret weapons – he talks straight, means what he says, doesn't go in for personal scorn and knows his onions.

Voters claim they look for someone who comes across as genuine, talks straight, means what he (or, for argument's sake in the coming campaign, she) says, even if they're not in perfect sync with the candidate on issues.

And getting our priorities straight means rejecting the notion that we have some type of fundamental right to take up assault weapons against the government our Founders created.

Though the WMC should be heaven, the advent of clueless restaurant DJs blasting main room records while you're nursing your hangover at lunch and the tricky business of self-medicating for seven days straight means it often tips into air conditioned, curtain twitching hell.

You might think that studying for two hours straight means you've done loads of work, but if you lost concentration and were staring into space half the time, then you have wasted time.

Keeping a chignon (a kind of loose bun) straight meant sleeping on chocks.Mr Sassoon's approach, by contrast, was hair-raisingly radical.

However in some analyses, straight mean fluorescence indices (MFI) minus IVTT background were used.

But there are no long corners at Monza, while the long straights mean their straight-line speed boosting device, which stalls the front wing as well as the rear when the DRS overtaking device is activated, gives them a significant advantage.

For the straight task, mean cadence, mean step length and step length standard deviation (SD) were computed automatically by GAITRite software.

This game, after three straight losses, means too much to Tampa Bay.

"Slim straight" basically means a straight leg from the knee down – a nod to the fact that men's trousers are getting wider (7forallmankind.co.uk).