straight A

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adjective

achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically: a straight A report card.

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Origin of straight A

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby straight A

strafe, Strafford, straggle, straggly, straight, straight A, straight-ahead, straight and narrow, straight angle, straight-arm, straight arm lift

How to use straight A in a sentence

Kooper had always gotten straight A’s, despite a tendency to leave big assignments to the last minute.
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers|by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman|March 8, 2021|ProPublica
Nagar’s son fell in love with math at an early age, and has earned straight A’s in every math class he’s ever taken, Nagar said.
Fairfax families sue over changes to Thomas Jefferson High’s admissions|Hannah Natanson|November 5, 2020|Washington Post
Funke would have been remembered as a pretty freshman or a straight-A student by friends and probably forgotten by most.
A College Student’s Death Is Now a Talking Point About Porn|Emily Shire|May 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
First reports detail the shooter as Sergei Gordeyev, a young man around 15 years old, and reported to be a straight-A student.
An American-Style School Shooting in Moscow|Andrew S. Bowen|February 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I think viewers assumed Daphne was a virgin because she was a ‘good girl’; a straight-A student, etc.
Television’s 20-Something Female Virgins: ‘Girls,’ ‘Grey’s,’ and ‘Underemployed’|Whitney Friedlander|November 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But being a straight-A student doesn't coincide with sexuality.
Television’s 20-Something Female Virgins: ‘Girls,’ ‘Grey’s,’ and ‘Underemployed’|Whitney Friedlander|November 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST
She looks very much like the straight-A student she indeed had always been.
Was Autumn Pasquale Killed Over a Bicycle? Teen Brothers Charged|Michael Daly|October 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It was a long straight-a-way, and they could leap many feet in a single jump.
The Moon Colony|William Dixon Bell
Well, geeve-a me youse-a da hand and Eesa take-a you straight-a da heem.
An Oregon Girl|Alfred Ernest Rice