Sentence examples for virtually straight from inspiring English sources

A noted Wotan, Mr. Tomlinson sang the part virtually straight through, in the supported, sonorous tones of the basso cantante, which ought not to have worked.

From there we plunged on round a bend and virtually straight under another fall - this we did twice as we all demanded to go again.

We wanted to really bond them – and eventually they went virtually straight into the first team having played very few reserve games.

If there is still some novelty in the idea of a footballer moving virtually straight into an upstairs role then perhaps it was right to expect Cruyff to choose an unconventional path.

One of Robert Cameron's thousands of vibrant color aerial photographs zeroes virtually straight down from above the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge to its anchorage, the reddish hue of the majestic structure glowing in a setting sun.

Within five minutes, Markopolos sensed that the returns had to be fictional, and he became sure of it when he plotted on a graph the rising quarterly gains, year after year, and wound up with a virtually straight forty-five-degree angle.

Almost straight from kick-off, Le Roux created another try from deep inside his own half that virtually ended the match as a contest.

The first is virtually a straight translation, closer to the idealising impulse of the original.

No worry at Central, where there are virtually no straight edges.

Even Robbins had virtually no success directing straight plays.

Taylor was virtually trapped for two straight days at his Hoboken, N.J., apartment, which was surrounded on all sides by several feet of water.