How To Use Straight and narrow In A Sentence
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The formerly semicircular forestage that connected the audience to the actors became a straight and narrow apron that divided the two groups.
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Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
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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.
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The sensible one who keeps her friends on the straight and narrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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But since I made public my extra-curricular activities with that woman who shall remain nameless, I have kept to the straight and narrow.
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They claim short sentences are useless as there is not enough time to get lags back on the straight and narrow.
The Sun
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he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow
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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
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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.’
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They claim short sentences are useless as there is not enough time to get lags back on the straight and narrow.
The Sun
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Director Marilyn Agrelo's feature debut follows the progress of NYC elementary school students as they learn to rumba and merengue their way to better posture, elevated social skills and a life on the straight and narrow.
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According to one of the law's backers, state Senator John Girgenti, the law makes it easier for sex offenders to stay on the straight and narrow, "reducing the risk of them being tempted to be a repeat offender.
- Boing Boing
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He finds it difficult to stay on / stick to the straight and narrow for long.
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a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands
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Over the last few weeks I've been slowly getting my life back on the straight and narrow after a year or so of hedonistic debauchery.
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The pastor tried hard, but unsuccessfully, to keep the boys to the straight and narrow path.
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Her feature debut follows the progress of NYC elementary school students as they learn to rumba and merengue their way to better posture, elevated social skills and a life on the straight and narrow.
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A scheme that draws young tearaways back on to the straight and narrow with a taste of military discipline is to be expanded nationwide, it was announced yesterday.
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No need to slow down: the four-wheel drive and electronic stability control will keep the car on the straight and narrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are, it seems, quite intolerant of any deviance from the straight and narrow.
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It's a really good feeling which will hopefully keep me on the straight and narrow for next month too.
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His wife is trying to keep him on the straight and narrow.
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All her efforts to keep him on the straight and narrow have been rewarded.
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Twelve hours of enforced exposure to a traditional, lederhosen clad oompah band ought to set them back on the straight and narrow.
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And it involves a programme of exercise and information to get you and your dodgy ticker back on the straight and narrow.
The Sun
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The team works with young people from the ages of eight to 18 to put out of control youths back on the straight and narrow.
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The sensible one who keeps her friends on the straight and narrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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“You, icy sweetness of strawberry, chocolate or vanilla, melting, stickily into your inverted dunce cap, ravisher of appetites, leading the younger generation from the straight and narrow paths of spinach, pilferer of the pennies that might go to make a fortune; destroyer of the peace of homes, instrument of bribery and reward of virtue.”
One Big Table
