straight-backed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Once her health declined, she continued to direct her nieces with authority from her straight-backed chair and never gave up her role as teacher and matriarch of the family.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
The chandeliers, Formica tables and straight-backed chairs of the Club have remained largely unchanged since it was set up more than 70 years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2023
I have not yet learned detachment, and I’m not handling the secondary trauma with the straight-backed indifference that is expected of physicians.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
The black-and-white photo showed a woman sitting straight-backed in a chair, staring directly into the camera lens with a commanding expression.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2022
The soldiers ignored her and the boy kept his posture straight-backed, as if he could not trust himself to look back at his mother.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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