square-shouldered

[ skwair-shohl-derd ]

/ ˈskwɛərˈʃoʊl dərd /

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having the shoulders held back, giving a straight form to the upper part of the back.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

First recorded in 1815–25

Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.
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This last trip it had felt as if there were more cameras around Havana than Times Square.
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Records describe this house as 6,916 square feet, with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
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The international media had been waiting on Wenceslas Square since early afternoon.
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In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.
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Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
For years his lordship was seldom seen in London, the great house in Grosvenor Square was never opened.
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She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.
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I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
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The building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.
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