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Meanings of straight-backed in English
Synonyms
Examples for "erectly"
Examples for "erectly"
1
He sat up erectly and stared down at the broad green water.
2
Mrs. Hastings sat erectly beside her, her tortoise-rimmed glasses expressing bland approval.
3
He came home so much beside himself that he could with difficulty walk erectly.
4
He carried himself erectly, swinging a little on his hips.
5
Lucy Ellen lifted her fawn-colored little head more erectly at the last of her protest.
Usage of straight-backed in English
1
This model may also suggest that straight-backed Neanderthals had reduced lumbar mobility.
2
She sat down rather stiffly in the straight-backed armchair beside the fire.
3
But the Jinni only stood straight-backed and grim, staring at the water.
4
He sits, straight-backed, in his chair-keepinghis diaphragm unencumbered throughout his presentation.
5
A straight-backed wooden chair with a needlepoint cushion stood facing the desk.
6
She stood up so suddenly she almost knocked the straight-backed chair over.
7
Sylvia came closer to her and sat down on a straight-backed chair.
8
Jack's straight-backed, brown-ink copperplate told her to assume a multiplier of fifty.
9
She stood straight-backed as an Indian, carrying her head with fine spirit.
10
Lady Tressady was sitting upright on the straight-backed sofa of George's smoking-room.
11
This sense of retro, straight-backed decency is probably Moyes's defining quality.
12
Selma managed to seat herself on the one straight-backed chair in the room.
13
Andrew lit a pipe and sat down in the straight-backed arm-chair.
14
This unpleasant woman was, however, too straight-backed for her chaperonage to succeed completely.
15
Mrs. Abbot reseated herself in the straight-backed chair she usually affected.
16
There were two straight-backed chairs on opposite sides of the board.