STRAIGHTEN in a Sentence

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70 example sentences for STRAIGHTEN, such as:

1. Maybe religion should help to straighten him out.
2. We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
3. It's grand fun and will straighten you up capitally.
4. I subvert the whole world just to straighten your reflection.
5. Ethan laid down the razor and straightened himself with a laugh.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRAIGHTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
straighten
 v.  make straight
 v.  make straight or straighter
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  "I guess things'll straighten out," he added.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  The colonel was seen to straighten his form and put one hand forth in oratorical fashion.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
3  It does seem to me, my dear, that something might be done to straighten matters.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  It's grand fun and will straighten you up capitally.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
5  Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
6  He felt the prefect of studies touch it for a moment at the fingers to straighten it and then the swish of the sleeve of the soutane as the pandybat was lifted to strike.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  But I had not much time to give him, because I was helping the engine-driver to take to pieces the leaky cylinders, to straighten a bent connecting-rod, and in other such matters.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
8  Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing the snuffbox in his hand, opened it and took a pinch.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
9  Ethan laid down the razor and straightened himself with a laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
10  A cutter, mounting the road from the village, passed them by in a joyous flutter of bells, and they straightened themselves and looked ahead with rigid faces.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Gerald dropped his hand from her arm and straightened his shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Mammy straightened up and, raising her apron, dried her streaming eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  In his mild-tempered way, Will had straightened out several difficulties of this kind and said nothing to her about them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  They tell me that when Suellen said those names, your pa kind of straightened up and squared his shoulders and looked at her, sharp- like.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  I subvert the whole world just to straighten your reflection.
2  He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things.
3  I subvert the entire world, only to straighten out your reflection.
4  We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
5  Maybe religion should help to straighten him out.
6  There are several financial problems that need to be straightened out quickly.
7  Once we get these problems straightened out, we should be all right.
8  The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again.