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How to use the word straight-out in a Sentence?

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It looks like something straight out of Indiana Jones.

Nathan Seastrand

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

It’s disgusting that Joe O’Dea and his campaign are endorsing this tactic. Taking aim at a candidate’s wife is straight out of the Donald Trump playbook.

The Bennet campaign

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Russia has a history of vicious and savage reprisals against civilians in any area when any kind of resistance movement is taking place. It's moved already to deport people from Mariupol to the remote parts of Russia, which is straight out of Russia's 20th century script for dealing with these problems.

Keir Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That was amazing. I mean, just straight out, this is incredible. When we heard the Blue Jays were in Buffalo, we knew we had to fin da way to get to the game.

Erik Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Within the first eight days of our relationship being made public, was when they said, ‘Harry’s girl almost straight out of Compton,’ and that her exotic DNA will be thickening the royal blood.

Prince Harry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Seeing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar come straight out of high school, he is someone that I used as inspiration, it was like, wow. Seeing a kid, 17 years old, come into the NBA and trying to make an impact on a franchise, I used it as motivation.

Lebron James

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After its theft of Palestinian land and culture, Israel is now trying to appropriate a symbol of our nonviolent resistance, this desperate and crude propaganda is straight out of apartheid South Africa's playbook.

Alia Malak

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This desperate and crude propaganda is straight out of apartheid South Africa's playbook.

Alia Malak

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He walked straight out in the middle of the road and he shot me, then he shot me again, i guess I always thought something like that would happen in school because we talk so much about school shootings.

Deborah Judd , 56

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I don't believe that Pakistan has the capability to straight out make peace happen in Afghanistan, but they definitely have the capability to make peace not (happen).

Laurel Miller

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The water in the Cape Fear River next to Duke's Sutton plant had twice as much arsenic in it as the toxic gray coal ash slurry spilling straight out of the pipe into the Dan River in 2014.

Donna Lisenby

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Cassini and Enceladus really allowed us to see the kind of things we could do with mass spectrometers and, more importantly, with material that's coming up straight out of the ocean, it's a way of viewing the ocean without drilling into it. We didn't necessarily have to land ; we could sit there and and sample to study quite a bit about these ocean worlds just from flying through the material that comes out of the interior. That's what the plumes are about on Europa as well. It's that connection to the interior ocean.

Hunter Waite

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I admitted that I did not have a plan beyond getting straight out of there (Hong Kong), I planned to ask the world for justice and see what happened. It was kind of surprising how that worked out.

Edward Snowden

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It could be anywhere from 5 to 10 million tonnes of reduction and that comes straight out of exports and will therefore have to be supplied by the U.S. and/or the Black Sea, Ukraine in particular.

Bunge CEO Soren Schroder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I understood that my recounting in my book A Time for Truth the threats he made in the 2009 Texas Attorney General race—and the disparaging remarks he made about President George H.W. Bush—would cause him some discomfort, but I never imagined that his response would be a straight-out falsehood. It's disappointing; this is why people are so cynical about politics, because too many people are willing to lie.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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