straight as an arrow
Example Sentences
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To tree farmer Terry Lamers, the coast redwood with its beautiful “straight as an arrow” form and small limbs is nothing short of an arboreal cash cow.
From Seattle Times
“He’s as straight as an arrow,” said Herbie Hancock, the hallowed pianist who met Carter at Miles Davis’s house in 1963, in a phone interview.
From New York Times
Actual Seattle streets run straight as an arrow.
From Seattle Times
Finally, he got one he liked from the Dodgers’ 16-game winner — a cutter that Rosario turned into a 105 mph rocket down the right-field line, higher and higher, straight as an arrow until it landed well back into the seats below the Chop House restaurant.
From Seattle Times
Because they are not charged, the neutrinos travel to Earth as straight as an arrow.
From Science Magazine
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