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straightaway

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ We should discuss the issue of the budget straightaway . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He put his foot down straightaway . ▪ I turned to run back towards the pit, but straightaway I could see Dad wasn't there any more. ▪ ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Straightaway is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama film, directed by Otto Brower . It stars Tim McCoy , Sue Carol , and William Bakewell .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. extending into the distance in a straight line. adv. At once; immediately. alt. At once; immediately. n. A straight section of a racetrack.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: immediate , prompt , quick ] n. a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse [syn: straight ] adv. without ...

Usage examples of straightaway.

Whatever she was going to do with it she must do it straightaway because she had to gather the herbs and then get home afore her da got back.

Jones followed Badger, and knocked down the straightaway bird which was sprung from the right-hand trap.

At the breakfast table, she had accidentally knocked a spoon to the floor and Mamo had looked up straightaway.

Russell arranged to come over straightaway, and then telephoned his friend Peter Strevens, a member of the Hertfordshire CID.

Straightaway, before he could continue by thanking her for her offer, as he fully intended, she knelt and sucked his member into her mouth.

Straightaway, before he could continue by thanking her for her offer, as he fully intended, she knelt and sucked his member into her mouth.

It was a long, wild ride through the moonlit Palouse that night, with him speeding down the straightaways and braking on the curves.

Great Wheel, Amanda told herself mantrically, as Dexter Lampkin used the relatively tame reaches of Mulholland Highway between Old Topanga and Las Virgenes to put on a display of phallocratic Porschely prana, screaming through the mild curves, roaring down the straightaways, passing everything he could find to pass by dropping down a gear and then standing on it in a manner that had the engine shrieking and roaring like a scalded leopard.

She wondered if Nathaniel would raise the subject of her relations straightaway, but he was more concerned about Richard Todd, and unable to curb his curiosity.

The jungle that crowds close to the track here smoothes into a dark green blur: Britt's speed is rising over a hundred miles per hour and continues to increase as the long, fast curve opens onto a chicaned stretch which most drivers streak through like a straightaway by clipping the apexes from corner to corner.

Every plane that boltered was vectored downwind and turned into the landing pattern again with at least a five-mile straightaway on final approach.

He is out of the glare immediately, dropping rollercoaster over the hill and sees before him a three-mile straightaway of cambered gray asphalt.

She was good enough on the straightaway, but if she attempted the turn under Craik Bridge as experienced skaters did, she might not live to see Blackfly Bog.

As his headlights gleamed down a straightaway, the Cadillac like a rocket again, Drew saw the high stone wall on either side.

But after graduating next year, young Evan is heading straightaway to law school, his resume jazzed by a semester of working journalism once viewed as a baptism by fire, but these days regarded more as an act of exotic self-sacrifice.