Definitions
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- adjective having a straight back
- adverb in a straight-backed manner
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Examples
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The boisterous gospel-style singing and praising is overwhelming, and by 8:15 the floor of the sanctuary is nearly full, with more congregants coming down the main aisle from the front doors and taking whatever seats remain in the straight-backed wooden pews.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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A dark shape sat in a straight-backed chair beside the bed, caught in alternating flares of blue-pink-blue.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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A dark shape sat in a straight-backed chair beside the bed, caught in alternating flares of blue-pink-blue.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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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 Anonymous 2011
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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 Anonymous 2011
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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 Anonymous 2011
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Tall and lean, with a bristling mustache and horn-rimmed glasses, the general, Jane thought, looked like a “straight-backed Groucho Marx.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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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 Anonymous 2011
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A dark shape sat in a straight-backed chair beside the bed, caught in alternating flares of blue-pink-blue.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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When he put a hand out, it was not to shake but to point at the straight-backed chair in front of his desk.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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