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
Clad in a gray T-shirt and blue gym shorts, he echoed, seemingly unconsciously, his straight-backed dancer’s posture: hand on hip, palm facing outward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
He was sitting in a straight-backed red leather chair with intricately carved wooden arms.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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