Locust is the best fence post wood in this country, because it is usually much straighter than other very durable woods.
It is claimed by some that a chestnut which grows from a sprout has straighter grain than one springing from seed.
And he was a little straighter than the business men she associated with, a good deal straighter than her brother.
The resolution she had gathered while she awaited her chance sat in her charming eyes, which met, as she spoke, the straighter paternal glare.
Since your bow ultimately will bend in the opposite direction, this natural curve tends to form a straighter bow, or as an archer would say "set back a bit in the handle.
The four ounce arrow would with the same adjustment hold a correspondingly straighter course.
It runs out from the wrist and down in a straighter line and tends to right angles.
But the shoulders of the pure Muscular are straighter and have a squareness where the Alimentive's have curves.
With the better bow and straighter shaft the marksmanship improved; even for these two callow archers it was not difficult to hit at a distance of a double spear's cast the bole of the huge tree, two yards in width at least.
We will make a straighter and stronger one and upon the end of it will put a little spearhead, and then we can tell how deeply it will go into the wood.
The philosopher gets his track by observation; the poet trusts to his inner sense, and makes the straighter and swifter line.
Mr. Chapman, whose book is the most interesting and intelligent, by far, of all hitherto published, recommends a straighterstock than those generally used by American hunters.
Even Hal Hastings sat upstraighter in his chair, watching the shipbuilder’s face closely.
I hope you’ll soon begin to understand that, whatever has happened, there are no two straighter boys alive than Jack Benson and Hal Hastings.
George, contriving to sit up a little straighter on the sofa.
He gets so that he can tell them with a straighter face than when he's telling the truth.
Mrs. Wintermill sat up a little straighter in her chair.
They can lie to you with a straighter face than a government mule.
Judge Driver sat up a trifle straighterin his chair.
Straighter than ever, thus, the Princess again felt it all put upon her, and there was a minute, just a supreme instant, during which there burned in her a wild wish that her father would only look up.
The reach of his gaze came to her straighter from a distance; it showed him as still more conscious, down there alone, of the suspected, the felt elaboration of the process of their not alarming or hurting him.
With which she struck him as rising straighter and clearer before him than she had done even yet.
The female cranium in fact has a straighterforehead than the male and the orbital arches are absolutely wanting, while the entire surface of the cranium is smoother and more rounded.
Close to Sunbury is Upper Halliford, by which a road takes a straighter line into the neighbouring parish of Shepperton, cutting across a bend of the river opposite Walton-on-Thames.
From Colnbrook the boundary bends back towards the Colne River, with which it presently falls in along the reach from Yiewsley to Uxbridge, where this stream skirmishes out on the western flank of the canal’s straighter march.
The radius is curved and has a narrow proximal, and expanded distal end, the ulna is straighter than the radius and has the distal end much smaller than the proximal; the olecranon is not much developed.
The tibio-fibula is longer and straighter than the femur.
There was never soldier yet that did not shoot straighter and strike deeper if a woman were looking on.
Twas from the same edge of the crucifix I got the scratch as I watched by the corpse last night, and leaned over to set the candles at the head straighter in their sockets.
Come, tell me the chap’s name, and I warrant me that I lead you to his clearing by a straighter path than this, for I know every sapling that grows within two miles of Templeton.
Lady Canterville looked as if she thought this really too ingenious, almost as professional as if their talk were a consultation; but her husband went, all gaily, straighter to the point.
Her daughter glanced at me with the habit of straighter defiance.
Durga-dei's black brows grewstraighter at the thought of the change one short year had wrought.
And then a straighter thread of path leading right upon his own fields and the village beyond.
Lincoln's peculiar service to his countrymen before the war was that of seeing straighter and thinking harder than did his contemporaries.
He saw before him the same fellow he had mastered on the evening of the Fourth, a little browner and clearer-eyed, possibly a little straighter and stouter, but still the same foe his fist had sent to the ground.
I've been round horses all my life; and I can hold a gun straighter than Allen.
As he spoke he took hold of the straighter weapon and made believe to hurl it.
Then taking the straighter weapon, he hurled it forcibly, and sent it skimming over the ground with such unerring aim that it struck a tree fifty yards away and fell.
The upright figure is not well balanced and will be more effective with the feet closer together, the legs straighter and the body more erect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straighter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
