straighten
Example Sentences
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Straighten those arches on Ms and Ns, and don’t forget the little left arm on capital “I.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
“Martin Luther King, he said when your back is bent, people can ride your back. Straighten up and quit letting people ride your back,” Walker said in Cumming, loosely quoting Warnock’s iconic predecessor at Ebenezer.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Downcast eyes let Fair-Kincaid know a misbehaving boy understands the gist of what he is saying: Straighten up or face the consequences.
From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2017
Straighten that foot...' might be the instructions as paramilitary recruits in China get precision training.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2011
“That’s fine. Now come over to this machine and put your hand into the tube. Nothing to harm you, I promise. Straighten your fingers. That’s it.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing straighten
List 10
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