How To Use Straight-backed In A Sentence
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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.
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a straight-backed wooden chair
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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
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a slim straight-backed dancer
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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
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Moira sat stiffly upright in her straight-backed chair.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But this tall, straight-backed man was also known as the ‘Towering Inferno ‘and withering self-criticism prevented him from fulfilling himself.’
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Somehow, she maintains her elegant composure, straight-backed, swan-necked.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looked left and saw a young girl in a summery dress, a girl with honey-coloured hair and a straight-backed walk, walking away from the house of the Mysteress.
One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
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Somehow, she maintains her elegant composure, straight-backed, swan-necked.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the inspector returned, he was straight-backed and solemn, like someone ready to give orders.
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We would come home to find her reclining like a pasha, surrounded by relatives from Bint Jbeil, headscarved old hajjis and tiny old men who sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs pulled up around her as she regaled them with tales of The Operation.
Day of Honey
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I think the restaurant we dined in was the only one in the place, and our gaillard of a host -- he was a straight-backed, well-set-up chap, with rather fine eyes -- did us on the whole pretty well.
Widdershins
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I wake up tied to a straight-backed chair sitting in an empty room under the harsh glow of a naked light bulb.
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The furniture consisted of just a bed, a foldaway table and a straight-backed kitchen chair.
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The elderly gentleman sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
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But this tall, straight-backed man was also known as the ‘Towering Inferno ‘and withering self-criticism prevented him from fulfilling himself.’
