straight-backed

or straight-back

[ streyt-bakt ]

adjective
  1. having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.

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How to use straight-backed in a sentence

  • I mean, she was in this purple dress and he was straight backed.

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  • One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.

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  • Letitia Prall sat on a straight-backed chair, erect and still; but looking like a leashed tiger, ready to spring.

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  • Sir John Meredith was sitting stiffly in a straight-backed chair by his library fire.

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  • And these eyeglasses were affixed to the bridge of Sir John Meredith's nose, as he sat stiffly in the straight-backed chair.

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  • Morley was ushered in and given one of the plain, straight-backed chairs with which the room was furnished.

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