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
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
Young and thin, with dark-rimmed glasses and a flop of bleached hair, he sits straight-backed in his seat, occasionally rocking from side to side, eyes fixed on a computer monitor before him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
A young woman, barely more than a girl really, sits straight-backed, her dark hair pulled up, two strings of pearls around her neck.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022
The light that came from outside made ordinary objects seem important: a quill pen, a pitcher with milk, an earring, the brass buttons that were part of a straight-backed chair.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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