Example sentences for: straight-arrow

How can you use “straight-arrow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nicolas Cage plays a straight-arrow private eye who enters the seamy world of hard-core porn in pursuit of information about a girl in a snuff film.

  • The best reason for seeing Forces of Nature --a sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy in which straight-arrow Ben Affleck is tempted from his imminent nuptials by free spirit Sandra Bullock and assorted natural disasters--is a scene in which the heartsick jock ex-boyfriend (David Strickland) of Affleck's fiancee (Maura Tierney) sings an a cappella version of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" into her ear in the middle of a party.

  • Chapter 2: Troubled, maverick National Transportation Safety Board Agent Johnny Manhattan's beeper goes off assigning him and, later, gorgeous, straight-arrow, divorcee FBI Agent Delores Dunray, to the case ...

  • Natural blondness, once the badge of physical and moral perfection, now marks you as hopelessly true-blue, white-bread, straight-arrow, old hat.


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