Sentence examples for maintain straight from inspiring English sources

At times we struggled to maintain straight faces; at other times, our innocence.

Mr. Lai wanted his two teenage children to maintain straight A's in school.

Found it impossible either to extinguish fire or feather prop, and had to have rudder tied by engineer to maintain straight flight, as the rudder trimmers had been shot away.

Pilots could use the device for instrument training, manipulating the controls on the basis of instrument readings so as to maintain straight and level flight or controlled climb or descent with no visual reference to any horizon except for the artificial one on the instrument panel.

Debbie Sabel of Medford, whose 15-year-old daughter, Liz, attends Moorestown Friends School, feels that Liz works very hard during the school year to maintain straight A's and in summer needs a chance to enjoy family time and theater and dance day camps.

Prop 8 would maintain straight people's monopoly on marriage.

A major drawback with the popular differential drive wheeled mobile robot (WMR) when autonomously navigating on smooth indoor surfaces is its inability to continuously maintain straight-line trajectories.

His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation the beetles maintained straight trajectories.

Could maintaining straight posture be an effective method of attenuating the negative memory bias in depressed patients?

Eventually, before the end of her life, she simply modified her activities as she maintained straight sobriety for a good 23 years, after 25 more spent in the dank throes of alcohol addiction.

It most often serves as a way for straight people to try on queerness like a temporary tattoo, a nod to the fact that the person expressing the sentiment can see that another man or woman is super duper attractive, while still maintaining straight privilege.