be erect
Example Sentences
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So yeah, that femme performance is so defining of how to hold yourself, to be erect because matriarchs are the oaks of families.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
In sitting the trunk should be erect and the hips should touch the back of the chair.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
The body should be erect, the chest thrown out, the head and shoulders held back, and the stride long and elastic.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
Your body should be erect, your head up, your heels together, your right foot pointing straight to your front, your left foot at right angles to it pointing to the left.
From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron
It was made of iron, and so constructed that, however it might fall, one of its four sharp points should be erect.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
