How To Use Straight off In A Sentence
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Others feel borak, and other forms of alcohol, may have a harsh effect on their stomachs, and find that their tendency to fall straight off to sleep after half a glass is a bit inconvenient.
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Once you learn what to look for, you can buy wisely at auctions, estate sales, or straight off the showroom floor.
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Marine life is spectacular, with coral gardens and snorkelling straight off the beach.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was the alphabet up on the wall, and the teacher explained to us five-year-olds straight off, how the letters represented sounds.
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The 24-year-old picks up a cue straight off the rack and proceeds to dazzle me with an array of fantastic pots and superb ball control.
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Whether it's plucking delectable mushrooms from the ground or pulling fruit straight off the trees, gathering wild food is incredibly satisfying.
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I ate my first immature pea pod of the year, straight off the plant.
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Fair comment, though it's strange to hear it coming from a guy sporting a mop-top shag haircut straight off the cover of Rubber Soul, a black T-shirt, denim pants and jacket and regulation Ray - Bans.
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The only thing better than torta di ricotta is fresh ricotta straight off the spoon.
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His current obsession is a treatment that electrifies the fat straight off your body.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can't expect to be accepted in a new town right/straight off the bat.
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Walk straight off the sandy beach to the balcony bar or enjoy a glass of wine and seafood platter on the terrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Read on and imagine a future Beachwood that could include an historic downtown with wider sidewalks, benches, streetlights, native trees and a bike path leading straight off the county rail trail from a rebuilt borough train depot/rail trail visitor center to the waterfront docks, beach and Mayo Park.
Case Study: Monmouth County Historic Sites Receive Preservation Funds « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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Often the hotel rooms would be double booked, so it was our job to make sure the guests came straight off the coach and into the welcome party, where they would be plied with local drink.
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Straight off the express from the 1980s, they were sporting frilly shirts, velvet jackets and floppy hair in true new romantics style, but this band was no mere homage.
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They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine.
AMAGANSETT
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It sho 'is bad to git so old you cyan' tell de names of yo 'chilluns straight off widout havin' to stop and study, and den you cyan 'allus' member.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
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At that moment the uber cool make up artist, Max Delorme, whisked in, straight off a plane from Berlin.
BritChick Paris: Why Everyone and Anyone can be a Model
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I slow-motioned, I fast-forwarded, and I was none the wiser: three to four beats with a u at the beginning, a three - or four-syllable word with - ere or - aire at the end, and I could think of a dozen words straight off with an ending that would fit: debonnaire, legionnaire, militaire, any air you liked to play.
The mission song
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If I was after a new bike for blatting around town, I'd buy one of these straight off the mark.
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And because the farm is a business, 17.5% of each week's rent comes straight off the top for the VATman.
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He came straight off the sandlots of Baltimore to become one of the game's great right fielders.
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He knew it straight off: a buff folder with a scrawl of previous recipients on the front and a few loose-leaf typed reports inside.
The Priest
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The wind had turned easterly, blowing straight off the Swedish coast.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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A thirtyish woman, straight off the set of Sex and the City, turns and looks at you like you asked her if she wanted to swap underwear.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse?
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It was cold there, damn cold, with a wind blowing straight off Dartmoor into our front room.
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Then it was straight off to the darkroom to run off photographs of our esteemed educators in various sizes.
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You can't expect to be accepted in a new town right/straight off the bat.
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But it's astonishing to enter a space, straight off the street, that is so long relative to its width, and whose height is emphasised by vertical slashes of windows.
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They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine.
AMAGANSETT
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Just tell me what it is and I'll confess straight off.
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He took the first five straight off, and went on to capture the world crown for the first time.
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Jeep Wrangler embody those three priorities, as well as providing near-goofy levels of straight off the showroom floor off-roadability?
Autoblog
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Walk straight off the sandy beach to the balcony bar or enjoy a glass of wine and seafood platter on the terrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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After setting your alarm clock for 6:30 a.m. sharp, you put on your 'jammies, slide into bed and cruise straight off to Snooze City.
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Lacey doesn't have a job and it's apparently pretty unusual for people who have been in hostels for such a short time to get a home of their own, but the organisation Real Lettings that has let him the flat will house people straight off the street if necessary: one client had been living rough for 10 years.
Real Lettings: a housing solution with a genuine difference
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As Ah crouched by the chimneypot Ah absolutely knew that if Goldie an 'the boys appeared Ah'd just pitch masel' straight offa the roof there an 'then. tae be quite frank, Ah was no' unattracted tae the idea of one final glorious flight on the wind tae the ultimate freedom available tae a poor girl wi 'nothin' tae lose.
High Society
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Calling a gobbler to the gun straight off the roost is a fairly rare occurrence; gobblers almost always roost with hen, so they have "dates" as soon as they hit the ground.
Chron.com Chronicle
