back straight

noun

a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point

Soon he was on the medal stand, where he hopes to be again this summer, his back straight, his eyes clear.

No sooner had the pony felt the leather over him than he raised his back straight up, his head going down almost to the ground.

He turned his canoe to land, lifted her out and hid her in the bushes, and struck back straight for the face of “Old Baldy.”

It was no longer dragged back straight from her face, and she looked a trifle less abject, even a shade prettier.

His eye now protruded, his tongue hung out a-foam, and his tail lay back straight like an arrow.

She was dressed in black, her figure tall and slender, her back straight and her head well poised.

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