Sentence examples for To strait from inspiring English sources

The Oxford English Dictionary still holds to strait and narrow, but that's not the phrase in current use; it is straight and narrow, with the first word not meaning "tightly bounded" but being the antonym of crooked.

Chris LeDoux, a real-life rodeo champion who also built a do-it-yourself career as a country act, cut a version a few years later, which found its way to Strait, who made the song his own.

According to Strait, Anderson was saved by a miracle birth "defect" that no one could have anticipated.

The Cromelin comment that stops me is his referral to Strait as "wooden" and the inference that he dare not deviate from his routine or he'd be lost.

I don't want to strait-jacket what we think is funny".

I'd like to think I have managed to balance my family's pendulum swings from brazen to strait-laced.

Mr. Hughley gives cameos to strait-laced CNN reporters: the business correspondent Ali Velshi gave a list of the five ways to make money in America, and cited "Marry Madonna" and "Divorce Madonna" as two of them.

He was born in 1958, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to strait-laced, Republican parents, and as a child developed a passion for Disney and Dr Seuss, and spent his time drawing cartoons with his father.

No such augmentation took place, and because of wars, fires and ruin the Prior and Chapter were brought to straits.

The islands gave the U.S.S.R. access to straits connecting Russian waters with the Pacific Ocean and control over rich fishing grounds close to Japan.

It took her eight months to get to the strait, where her boat broke down.