ADVERB
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in a straight-backed manner
the old man still walks erectly
ADJECTIVE
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having a straight back
a straight-backed wooden chair
a slim straight-backed dancer
How To Use straight-backed In A Sentence
- In the midday sun, the allure of a golden-globed Orthodox church was matched only by the three blue spires atop the straight-backed cathedral.
- a straight-backed wooden chair
- An overstuffed chair for the use of the interrogatee is sometimes preferable to a straight-backed, wooden chair because if he is made to stand for a lengthy period or is otherwise deprived of physical comfort, the contrast is intensified and increased disorientation results. The Dark Art of Interrogation
- a slim straight-backed dancer
- On the top of the page was a photogravure of a beautiful woman, tall, with a mass of curly black hair and thick dark eyebrows, standing straight-backed in a white dress, staring out of the page in a way that reminded Ruby of Mama. DIAMOND RUBY
- Moira sat stiffly upright in her straight-backed chair.
- The hero, Thomas Irwin Morrison, square-jawed, straight-backed, irresistibly perfect, trespassing in their profession, threatening the ambition they had schemed and sacrificed all their adult lives to achieve. O: A Presidential Novel
- So here she is on this bus, and the elderly gent sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
- True, no one's swapping straight-backed seats for velvet chaises so movie patrons can prop themselves in the grape-peeling poses of the ancient Romans.
- As the audience entered the stage was set up as a shabby music room: there was a straight-backed piano upstage right and various basic wooden chairs arranged with music stands.