Sentence examples for taking a straight from inspiring English sources

Catchment ares are defined by taking a straight line distance from each wind turbine that can vary from site to site.

LONDON — In news terms, murders are often local affairs, taking a straight line from the police blotter to the city pages and remaining there only as long as it takes for public interest to fade.

Yeager's Mach 1 trip acts as a prologue, with the film taking a straight line through the selection procedure, the hysterical media and political attention, the key flights, and ends abruptly with Gordon Cooper's final Mercury mission.

Fast forward to Friday evening, day five of my challenge and I've already trained nine times in a week; I'm exhausted, darting around the ring trying to avoid taking a straight right on the chin.

Allenby, however, was really interested in taking a straight northerly direction, reckoning that the Palestine branch rail line at ʿAfula and Beisān, some 60 miles behind the Turkish front, could be reached by a strategic "bound" of his cavalry and that their fall would isolate the two Turkish armies in the west.

Aside from contributing a section (on pole vaulting) to Visions of Eight, a documentary about the 1972 Munich Olympics, Penn took time out until he returned to cinema in 1975 with Night Moves, taking a straight genre script and rewriting it to embody the alienation of contemporary America.

The in-game spots contrast one another, with the first taking a straight-faced approach to the Sonata's debut.

Then you can even shoot a half-court shot as if you are taking a straight-up jump shot.

Rollins's conversation never takes a straight route.

But if the obstacle is removed, you will take a straight path to that object.

His take – a straight rip-off of the classics – is weirdly refreshing as a result.