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Example sentences for "straight line"

  • The actual distance in a straight line is about fifty miles, from Yoksun to the mart at or near Tashirukpa.

  • When the normal subject travels in a straight line, at a walk or a trot, the length of the stride is the same with the right and left members.

  • The stride of the right foot then, for example, is equally divided by the imprint of the left foot, in the normal horse, when traveling at a walk and in a straight line.

  • On that expedition I explored a line of nearly 700 miles of previously unknown country, in a straight line from my starting point.

  • We had no alternative but to return to the only spot where we knew water was to be had; this was now distant twenty-one miles to the north-east, so we departed in a straight line for it.

  • Take him into the corners so that he will move more on a straight line, and you can rise straight and be as much at ease as if on the road.

  • If you cannot do it in the school, you cannot on the road, and many an ugly scrape against walls, horse-cars, and other horses you will receive unless you can keep to the right and in a straight line.

  • We started at noon to Skull Creek, which, in a straight line, was fourteen miles distant, in a north by east direction.

  • She had left Dacca two days before, and this being the dry season, the route to Calcutta, which is but sixty miles in a straight line, involved a detour of three hundred.

  • The abundance of animal life was wonderful, compared with the want of it on the south side of Donkia pass, not five miles distant in a straight line!

  • To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

  • Just after passing the second bridge beyond Nabua the road, inclining eastwards, wends in a straight line to Iriga, a place lying to the south-west of the volcano of the same name.

  • The motion of these animals is no doubt generally in a straight line, or rather like that of an arrow, supposing it to change its direction at certain distances.

  • Forests till then believed to be impenetrable separated the mission of Javita from that of San Fernando, which was twenty-five leagues distant in a straight line.

  • Now since I began to watch them, they have mined a good half-mile, in a straight line; and so far as I am aware, they are working in no other part of the mountain.

  • Reasoning thus, he followed her a few steps, and came out in another great cavern, across which Irene walked in a straight line, as confidently as if she knew every step of the way.

  • As soon as both eyes are struck by the rays of light at the same angle, there is no more reason for the animal to deviate from this direction and it will move in a straight line.

  • So they turned and figured a straight line as well as they could from the spot where the flashes were made.

  • I imagine she'll have about a hundred and twenty miles to travel in a straight line - perhaps a little less," said Harry.

  • The cache is in a straight line, almost, from that, where the ground dips a little.

  • He had a road map, and found that they could follow a straight line, except for one break.

  • Now comes the class where the pilot rises three or four hundred feet high and travels for more than two miles in a straight line.

  • Then he gets into a single-seated one and, while the rapidly whirling propeller is pulling him along, tries to keep the Penguin in a straight line.

  • The tail is brought to an angle slightly above a straight line.

  • All the flying up to this point has been done in a straight line, but now comes the class where one is taught to turn.

  • The cave is situated about twenty-five miles in a straight line south of the Mormon colony of Chuhuichupa.

  • The first ascent was over a mile long in a straight line; then, after a little while, came the most arduous climbing I had until then ever attempted.

  • In a straight line we had not gone that day more than three miles.

  • An interesting relic of the population that once prospered in Casas Grandes Valley is a watch tower, plainly visible on a mountain to the southwest, and about five miles, in a straight line, from the ruins.

  • The houses were arranged in an arc of a circle so large as hardly to deviate from a straight line.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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