Similar words: straight, straighten, straightaway, straightforward, keep a straight face, strained, unrestrained, constrainedly. Meaning: n. a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature.
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31. The analysis had shown that the cheapest option was to build a particular road in a straight line.
32. In 1877 he published his best-known work, How to Draw a Straight Line.
33. If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling, the boat will drift on in a straight line.
34. Human machines everywhere are built up from mechanisms involving combinations of motion in a straight line and motion in a circle.
35. To draw a conchoid of a straight line: Select a point A that is not on the straight line.
36. This is rather like being able to draw a straight line tangent at any point on a smooth curve.
37. It's difficult to walk in a straight line with your eyes closed.
38. Start by standing one behind the other to form a straight line.
39. The beam carried on in a straight line, and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been.
40. Once this fall was likened to a gigantic weir, its crest a straight line between Goat Island and the opposite shore.
41. He blasted it and it went in a straight line from his foot to the top right hand corner.
42. The revenue function also more nearly resembles a curve than a straight line over wide ranges of output.
43. The more to the left of and above the dashed straight line a curve is, the more potential exists for improvement.
44. Photographs showed it to consist of twenty or more radiant pieces in a straight line[sentencedict.com], embedded inside an extensive bright cloud.
45. In the meantime I began to set out a straight line for us to work along.
46. They followed rivers for convenience, then struck out in a straight line, bisecting mountain ranges, cutting watersheds in half.
47. Always travelling in the same direction - a straight line.
48. Our screwed up eyes imagined they say a straight line in the bottom of Central Gully.
49. Imagine a straight line half way between the hour hand and the figure 12 on the watch.
50. Because it was attached to the straw and the string, it went in a straight line.
51. They were in a straight line but when Boris clapped his paws they began to march.
52. Imagine yourself centred along a straight line running from the top of your head to your feet.
53. They are like crayfish, unable to walk in a straight line.
54. Now the right leg is thrust out with the foot travelling in a straight line towards the opponent.
55. An image is convex if every straight line with both ends in the image is actually entirely in the image.
56. When glass fibre tubular spars were standard practice(sentencedict.com/straight line.html), leading edge distortion would form an otherwise straight line into a swan-neck shape!
57. It is a closely-packed map with hardly a straight line or an empty space in it.
58. Bert not being that clever with figures opts for straight line depreciation on all the fixed assets.
59. She realized that she wasn't walking in a straight line and was unsteady on her feet.
60. As long as he moved in a straight line at a uniform speed, he felt a wonderful sense of buoyancy.
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