How do you use the word "straight" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "straight": Go straight ahead until you reach the church. You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Straight Meaning

/stɹeɪt/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjNot crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.

adjDirect, undeviating.

Sentence Examples

Go straight ahead until you reach the church.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Keep straight on for two miles.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

flat square direct

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The carpenter checked that the board was perfectly ____ before making the cut.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The road through the desert was completely ____ for many miles, with no curves or hills in sight.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Cognate with Scots straicht (“straight”), Dutch gestrekt (“stretched”), German gestreckt (“stretched”), Danish strakt (“stretched”), Faroese and Norn strekti (“stretched”), Icelandic strekkti (“stretched”), Norwegian strekte (“stretched”), Swedish sträckte (“stretched”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed. In some senses, conflated with strait (“narrow, constricted”), which is from Latin strictus via Old French estreit.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing." — 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

"“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”" — 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

"The other people, I presume, are supposed to be standing to attention, but they're all smiling at me. The lines are not even straight." — 2011 March 22, Adharanand Finn, The Guardian:

"Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far." — 1913, John Fox, Jr., The Kentuckians, page 185:

"He had no time to set himself, but his throw was straight and true. Pick slid in, spikes high, and Schang tagged him in the ribs a foot or two from the plate." — 2000, Allan Wood, Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox, page 293:

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