18 examples of straightaway in sentences

She will certainly set things right straightaway.

"We shall go and find her straightaway.

The straightaway mile over the smooth, hard beach was covered from a running start in the almost incredibly short time of 25.40 seconds.

Like the straightaway man he was, he went to the meat of the matter.

This means sure danger for birds and mice and elephants, too!" "Then let's go and inform the new Queen straightaway!"

"Straightaway!" called Dan.

CHAPTER III CONCERNING FIGHTERS The race-track had come into existence by grace of accident for it happened that a lane ran a ragged course about a big field taking the corners without pretense of making true curves, with almost an elbow-turn into the straightaway; but since the total distance around was over a mile it was called the "track."

The sprints were run on the straightaway which was more than the necessary quarter of a mile but occasionally there was a longer race and then the field had to take that dangerous circuit, sloppy and slippery with dust.

For the bairn will ask you, straightaway: 'Did you fight in the great war, Grandpa?

This conduit wound around a good deal; it would take a hundred winding feet to cover thirty straightaway.

We grabbed some samosas and straightaway landed at the team manager Joe Vaz's office in Miramar.

Go home to your mammy, straightaway, and the sooner the better.

If Gertie was scolded for any of her shortcomings, she immediately took refuge in tears, said she was sorry, obtained forgiveness, and straightaway forgot the whole matter.

One brought for my inspection some soup-plates which had been procured during my absence; another came with a picture-book; and nothing would do them but that I must, despite the darkness, straightaway go out and admire a new fowl-house which "Horace and Stanley built all by theirselves, and no one helped them one single bit.

And, as all the women happened to be absent from the camp, they decided straightaway that night, before they could be announced, to take horse and ride away to all of them simultaneously.

Marcellus straightaway mourned on learning this, buried him brilliantly in his ancestral tomb, assisted by the noblest citizens and all the Romans, and the man's murderer, I trow, he slew with an axe.

" There was no difficulty about finding the keythere were but a few on the bunch, and he hit on the right one straightaway, and we all crowded round him as he threw back the heavy lid.

The present edition contains more than fifteen thousand words of new matter, including "Our Narrowest Escape" and "The Aurora of the Sea," and it also describes, for the first time, the incidents and adventures of a winter journey overland from the Okhotsk Sea to the Volga Rivera straightaway sleigh-ride of more than five thousand miles.

18 examples of  straightaway  in sentences