straighten

Example Sentences

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He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil.

From BBC

“Whether it’s Republican or Democrat, or liberal or conservative, it would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world.”

From Los Angeles Times

The 37-year-old actor had been sitting onstage — his character, a brutish trucker, proposing marriage to a tormented woman played by Aubrey Plaza — and as he went to get up, he couldn’t straighten his leg.

From New York Times

"I thought: 'Well, maybe this is the answer to my problems. Maybe this man can straighten me out. Like if he prays for me, I won't be gay any more.'"

From BBC

It’s the latest attempt to straighten out a process that has been marred by errors after student loan payments restarted in October.

From Seattle Times