"straight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Although they were quick on the wing, they were flying straight and descending only gently towards the forest.
- The clouds were right down on the mountain now, the walls of the inlet shrouded, light fading as the Cessna taxied out and took off, flying straight and low down the waterway.
- The instruments told Steve he was flying more or less straight and level at just under fifty feet but his stomach told him they were being buffeted up, down and sideways by the gale-force gusts of wind.
- In this way of looking at the world, Time's arrow flies straight and in one direction only.
- The bullet had a hand-polished copper jacket, and it was flying straight and true, but by the time it passed soundlessly over McGrath's head it had slowed a little.
- This had no effect on the path of the arrow, which was already flying straight and true towards a gargoyle on the rooftop just across the road.
- As he reached twenty-five thousand feet, he pulled the engines out of afterburner and pulled back on the stick, flipping his jet onto its back, flying straight and level but upside down.
- High above them, the eagle returned from the east, pale against the pregnant bellies of the clouds, still flying straight and true with the weight of the pending storm on its wings.
- They said the American plane was flying straight and flat on auto-pilot when the Chinese plane made three close approaches, coming as near as 3 to 5 feet.
- He trimmed the plane to fly perfectly straight and level at four hundred fifty knots, then slammed the throttles forward and pulled up hard to start the gunnery pattern.
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