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noun

horse racing the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish

the final stage of an undertaking or journey

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Also (chiefly US): home stretch

Words nearby home straight

homestead, Homestead Act, homesteader, homesteading, homestead law, home straight, homestretch, home study, homestyle, “Home, Sweet Home”, home teacher

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How to use home straight in a sentence

Some hurry home straight from the bath, drops of bath-water dripping from beard and earlocks.
Yiddish Tales|Various
I would sooner have come home straight, but I had it not in my heart to forsake Tewfik till this affair is finished.
General Gordon|Seton Churchill
P'raps Mick means to take yer home straight away, but if he doesn't we must wait a bit till I can find out what he's after.
"Us"|Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
Would you rather come in and dine with us—we should send you home, of course—or go home straight?
Wives and Daughters|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

She went home straight to her husband; he was smoking his pipe after dinner.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866|Various