Sentence examples for sits straight from inspiring English sources

He sits straight up when he eats.

Ms. Anderson sits straight and looks imperious, gesturing with a stylized unfolding of one arm.

A senior United Nations envoy thinks him "quite a vain guy", who "dresses well, sits straight and looks good".

Then Mrs. Deon chases the cruiser down the street in the dark until it disappears, and she wakes and sits straight up in bed.

"He [Mugabe] appears uncomfortable when seated – he slouches and frequently turns his body as if to find a better position, and then sits straight up and speaks in a louder voice for a few seconds before lapsing back into the barely audible soft voice".

What the Space Monitor does is very simple: it clamps to your desk and sits straight up from the edge — up against the wall if there is one — and takes up about as little space as it's possible for a display to.

The new principal of St Andrews, trim in a dark suit, sits straight-backed in her chair, legs crossed, moving a foot in its elegant black court shoe.

In the visitors' room, Bergwall sits straight-backed on a small red chair, dim light glinting off rectangular-framed spectacles, his feet planted slightly apart in grey socks and Velcro-strapped sandals.

Her father-in-law gives the surgeon — and her as well — a despising glance, but Mr. Suter does not notice it, perhaps does not even realize that the old man and the fair-haired boy who sits straight-backed facing the old man have anything to do with her.

Everyone sits straighter in their seats.

Waiting for the Phoenix show to begin, Greenwood sits straight-backed in a sofa and talks with his handlers and a local television crew about car racing.