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

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

In both cases, supposing the coralline to be erect, the capitulum is placed upwards, with its orifice towards the branch to which it is attached, and consequently with its carina outwards.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

The shoulders should be square, and the body should be erect upon the hips.

From Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp by Alger, Horatio

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