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n. (plural of straight A English)
Usage examples of "straight as".
The highway had been concrete, three lanes wide, straight as a bowling alley.
We began hitting the cross-ruts and the front end lost its line and cocked over and wouldn't come back but the wheels had some resistance left and I waited and then hit the brakes as we ploughed into the loose sand alongside the kerb and the Pobeda shook itself straight as the nearside rear wheel hit and bounced and got traction as I gunned up and settled down again with a number 55 bus a hundred yards ahead of me and nothing this side of it but a taxi.
A rim of red showed over the horizon and the sunlight struck straight as a sword into the tangled greenery at my right.
The pose showed her slight figure to its best advantage, erect, balanced, and straight as the arrow she was aiming at the center of Peter's chest.
But when I went dashing into the melee there he was, straight as a ramrod as always, squinting into the smoke trying to see what was going on.
The path runs straight as a plumb-line, worn smooth by feet and baked brick-hard by July, between the green rows of laid-by cotton, to the cottonhouse in the center of the field, where it turns and circles the cottonhouse at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn so by feet in fading precision.
She walked to the end of the ledge and shot out over the sea, doubling up in mid-air and then straightening out and entering the water straight as a blade in a perfect jack-knife dive.
Tristan opened his mouth-and before he could speak, a set of sawtoothed structures jumped into view, as straight as ruled lines.
The colonel rose, still straight as a ramrod, and began by thanking everyone for their good wishes for his retirement.
They entered the Market between two black-and-white striped posts-about eighteen feet tall and slender and straight as teenaged telephone poles.
They entered the Market between two black-and-white striped postsabout eighteen feet tall and slender and straight as teenaged telephone poles.
He held himself very straight as he entered the house, and the boyish grin with which he customarily greeted the butler had given place to a dignified nod.
Her figure, too, was straight as a dart, a little portly, perhaps, but curving into magnificent outlines, which were half accentuated by the strange costume which she wore.
In a moment all stood up as straight as arrows, bowed to the teacher and left.
One of Toots' friends was taking a set of silver fox from a man, and she was as straight as a die.