ramrod straight

idiom

: in a very straight and stiff way

—used especially to describe the way someone stands or sits

He sat in the saddle, ramrod straight.

Examples of ramrod straight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Not easy for me, Lucy Gantt Sheppard says, sitting up ramrod straight, eyes fixed on mine across the dark expanse of dining-room table. —Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024

Nation/World As a girl in South Korea, Kristen Yoo walked with books on her head to cultivate a model’s ramrod straight posture. —Jeong Park, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023

In the audience, seated with her parents and two daughters, Joy watched her son speak, ramrod straight in his blue uniform festooned with badges and metals. —Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022

Nation/World As a girl in South Korea, Kristen Yoo walked with books on her head to cultivate a model’s ramrod straight posture. —Jeong Park, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023

His posture became ramrod straight. —Marcia Desanctis, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2023

In Hyde Park, many stood ramrod straight, with heads bowed in a moment of uniform solemnity remarkable for a crowd that size. —Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022

While fierce winds have contorted the towering trunks of its neighbors, the spruce’s trunk is ramrod straight. —Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022

At the end of that line, Mayor Eric Adams, stood ramrod straight in a tan overcoat. —Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022