directly

How To Use directly In A Sentence

• ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
• Alcohol abuse can be inherited but researchers had found few genes directly linked to it. The Sun
• Rub a bit of peppermint oil directly onto your forehead; it acts as an antispasmodic.
• The old rates were at least indirectly related to income; the new tax takes no account of a person's ability to pay.
• We believe that this directly relates to reality programming that has been instilled in our race since its conception.
• If you manage your overhead costs properly, you will impact directly on your bottom line cost base.
• When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
• It feels as if all that laughter's going in a hyperbola above my head, with one of them sitting behind me and the other directly before me.
• The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
• Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie