Word Finder - directly

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In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

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He drove directly to the office, and didn't stop off at the petrol station.

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In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means.

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I'm sick of asking you to fire him, I'll just do it directly.

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Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.

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I'm going to tell Natalie directly that I love her.

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Exactly; just.

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It's directly across the street.

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Straightforwardly; honestly.

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He told me directly that he'd cheated on me, and how sorry he was for it.

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Immediately.

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Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.

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We'll go to the store directly, but first I need to finish sweeping.

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As soon as; immediately.

The sun was directly overhead.

I'm directly responsible for all of this.

She sang directly to Sarah and the tears started to flow quickly.

And indeed he only had to lie down, to fall asleep like a stone, and he only had to shake himself, to be ready without a moment's delay for some work, just as children are ready to play directly they awake.

Under no circumstances should we ever personally get directly involved with a case.

None of my dealers can either, if I can't be directly involved in her death.

It didn't take long for him to get home, and when he came in from the garage, he went directly to his gun cabinet and took out a rifle.

Howie extinguished the light, went directly to the small bed and turned to the wall.

Her body shook off the chill by the first mile marker and by the second, the moon was directly overhead.

All that she is, all that she has done, can be explained directly, except such things in every human being as never can be explained.

When she opened her eyes the sun was directly overhead.

Dean looked directly at him.

Katie had gone directly from Alex to her Aunt Polly.

The Mangaboos were much impressed because they had never before seen any light that did not come directly from their suns.

Directly facing the place where Jim had stopped was an arched opening leading to a broad stairway.

Its end led directly to the Cold War, which consumed inconceivable amounts of money and almost pushed the world to the brink of nuclear devastation.

An energy crop could be a permanent forest of trees that convert sunlight to liquid fuel and deliver the fuel directly through their roots to a network of underground pipelines.

I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet, but it is on the one hand distantly and indirectly related to Flint's Pond, which is more elevated, by a chain of small ponds coming from that quarter, and on the other directly and manifestly to Concord River, which is lower, by a similar chain of ponds through which in some other geological period it may have flowed, and by a little digging, which God forbid, it can be made to flow thither again.

The dining room was directly off the kitchen, which was also lavish.

Stopping her seemed not to enter Dean's mind as she placed a chair in the middle of the room, looking up to make sure it was directly beneath the hanging brass fixture.

Already then, directly I saw him I felt something peculiar.

He never looked directly at her, but the way he held back branches was indication enough that he knew she was there and was thinking of her.

That's the number of Guardians you've killed directly with your actions over the past few thousand years.

Even if he wasn't directly involved, it's a small high school and booze parties are probably common knowledge.

They were just finishing dressing when Dean heard a sound, the door closing directly above, in Fred's room.

He'll be coming out directly, we must go.

He granted me a position directly supporting the Council, if I walked away from her forever.

Then they told him dinner would be served directly and he replied that they could not serve it too quickly to suit his convenience.

One of these is micro-lending, which directly connects the lender with the borrower and which the Internet has made appealingly easy and personal.

To "go nano" is to directly manipulate reality at the atomic level.

But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.

It is said that when hatched by a hen they will directly disperse on some alarm, and so are lost, for they never hear the mother's call which gathers them again.

Sometimes he would come up unexpectedly on the opposite side of me, having apparently passed directly under the boat.

At length the old hound burst into view with muzzle to the ground, and snapping the air as if possessed, and ran directly to the rock; but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked round and round him in silence; and one by one her pups arrived, and, like their mother, were sobered into silence by the mystery.

Directly Rostov entered the door he was enveloped by a smell of putrefaction and hospital air.

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

Brandon hit the breaks, and the car started to slide sideways... directly into the path of the Mack truck.

To ask Brennan directly might lead to us so I made up a story we were checking old cases to see if someone released from prison might have returned to this type of crime.

Once I was alone again, I pondered my unilateral decision to speak directly to Ethel Reagan as I sipped on cold coffee.

She must have cleared my call with the switchboard as I was put through directly, absent any underlings.

Instead of using our usual tip line, we conveyed the information directly to Detroit where the abduction took place.

While she didn't ask directly, I sensed she hoped I'd talk to him.

I won't contact you directly.

I didn't want to lie directly so I hedged.

How else could someone have made a connection directly to Howie?

This they did by sacrificing a victim and effecting communion with the god by the application of its blood to the altar; or, more directly, by the sacrifice of the animal-god and the contact of the sacrificer with its blood.

The southern half of the state, however, slopes eastward and is drained directly into the Atlantic through a number of small rivers, the largest of which are the Irapiranga (whose source is in the state of Bahia and which is called Vasa Barris at its mouth), the Real, and the Cotinguiba.

If, however, the precipitate refuses to settle, it is directly transferred to the filter paper, the last traces being removed by washing and rubbing the sides of the vessel with a piece of rubber, and the liquid is allowed to drain through.

In April 1877 public attention was called to the distress of three maiden ladies, directly descended from Defoe, and bearing his name; and a crown pension of X75 a year was bestowed on each of them.

Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I made a slip-noose, which I attached to its end, and, letting it down carefully, passed it over the knob of the handle, and drew it by a line along the birch, and so pulled the axe out again.