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
The rider’s body should be erect but pliable, neither obeying too much the action of the horse, nor yet resisting it.
From The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation by Jenkins, T. A.
The position of pupils while reading should be erect, easy, and graceful.
From New National Fourth Reader by Barnes, Charles J.
She had placed a pillow behind her, so that her back might be erect; but her neck was fixed as that of one in a cataleptic trance.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Stoker, Bram
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
