How to Use straight off in a Sentence

straight off

adverb

• I told her straight off that I was not going to do that.
• Usually the best part of it is the stuff that comes straight off the top of your head.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2022
• Pull the dumbbells straight off the weight rack, then hold for 10 to 15 seconds.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 July 2023
• The idea of just a choir starting straight off of that would be ridiculous.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 4 May 2018
• The apples, plums, pears and others are ripe, straight off the tree or baked in a pie.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• All are encouraged to grab a bite straight off the pig.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2023
• The space has a glam, old-school train car vibe straight off the Orient Express.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 1 Nov. 2019
• Gales from Blythe all the way to Buckeye almost blew my car straight off the road.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Olivia Palermo is not one to take a look straight off the runway to the streets.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2014
• Push straight off the ground all the way up to the top position with your elbows straight.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
• Become friends with a shrimper and buy their haul straight off the shrimping boat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• This work of art looks straight off the Pinterest main page.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2021
• Just like you straight off the plane, they taste crumpled, tense, and bitter.
  — Marissa A. Ross, Bon Appetit, 18 Sep. 2017
• But now, the two are meeting in the middle: the tech is pure performance, and the look comes straight off the street.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 16 Oct. 2017
• Paint Strokes This work of art looks straight off the Pinterest main page.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
• The line comes straight off of the spool, but then twists as it is being wound onto the spinning reel.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 1 June 2020
• The best way to eat meat is straight off the bone or out of the shell—with your bare hands, BA’s Serena Dai writes.
  — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2023
• And shooting at the tires did work, such that one of the front ones eventually peeled straight off the rim.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 18 Jan. 2023
• Clariant needs two-thirds of votes cast to back its merger straight off.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• And then, there were kids who were going to school in Marc Jacobs straight off the runway.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 20 Sep. 2023
• To wit, several of the night's biggest looks were straight off the runway.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2022
• The look is straight off of the tiny little head of original 1959 Barbie.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 11 July 2023
• But now crates straight off the boats lay on the cement floor while buyers stared, not bidding.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• To be more precise a pair of Prada monolith boots, straight off the catwalk.
  — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
• For customers, the subsidy will be taken straight off their bill.
  — Oliver Briscoe, CNN, 13 July 2023
• Andra Day kicked off the 2021 Golden Globes with a standout look straight off the runway.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2021
• Williams said that is intentional so people can see the meat get chopped and served straight off the grill.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2021
• And the quick, witty exchanges feel straight off the theater stage and borrow from the dialogue-heavy rom-coms of the past.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The club invested up to £75m just last summer and got 27 goals straight off the bat from the Belgian in his first season.
  — SI.com, 22 June 2018
• Instead of screaming into the lake, the ball took a favorable bounce straight off the crown of the first cut and bounded down the fairway.
  — Steve Dimeglio, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024