straight and narrow

How To Use straight and narrow In A Sentence

• The formerly semicircular forestage that connected the audience to the actors became a straight and narrow apron that divided the two groups.
• Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
• The long and winding railroad to London is back on the straight and narrow as Manchester travellers can once more get there without changing trains.
• The sensible one who keeps her friends on the straight and narrow. Times, Sunday Times
• But since I made public my extra-curricular activities with that woman who shall remain nameless, I have kept to the straight and narrow.
• They claim short sentences are useless as there is not enough time to get lags back on the straight and narrow. The Sun
• he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow
• Parents, correspondingly, have no God-given licence to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children's knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith. The God Delusion
• He voiced fear that the only officeholders left would be those ‘who have done nothing in their life except walk the straight and narrow, who have no creative thoughts.’
• They claim short sentences are useless as there is not enough time to get lags back on the straight and narrow. The Sun