Straight-arrow

"Straight-arrow" in a Sentence (7 examples)

A ruggedly-handsome man, he had an open, friendly face; he was known as a straight-arrow.

All my life I had been a very clean-cut guy, sort of a “straight-arrow,” an outdoors, hunting and fishing kind of guy.

The guy's a straight-arrow, and he's definitely got the president's back.

But how did a straight-arrow like you wind up with a friend like that?

The difficulties attracted him, as well as the aesthetics of the route he wanted to follow – a straight-arrow ridge to the top.

Savor a paved and peaceful route through endless fields as you follow a straight-arrow road to an intersection with the secondary road for Grossbostheim.

Second, Winney's personal history did not follow a straight-arrow transition from slavery to manumission to freedom, or even manumission to indenture to freedom; rather her re-enslavement followed several years' employment as a free woman for her former owner, and then what may have been as many years at the residence of her later employer before she was sold.

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