straight as an arrow
Example Sentences
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“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Actual Seattle streets run straight as an arrow.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022
Because they are not charged, the neutrinos travel to Earth as straight as an arrow.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 14, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slumped over in his seat, although Mitch McConnell, just across the aisle from him, mostly sat up straight as an arrow.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2020
I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
