Use straighten in a sentence
Sentences starting with straighten
- Straighten up, I tell you! [5]
- Straighten up! [5]
More example sentences with the word straighten in them
- Very slender limbs, with bends like a grasshopper's; sits a great deal, I presume; looks as if he might straighten them out all of a sudden, and jump instead of walking. [6]
- New snag just where you straighten down; go above it. [5]
- I don't know what will straighten it out. [9]
- I thought it was going to be easy enough to straighten out that little difficulty, but it looks different now. [5]
- We were mounted upon very small donkeys, as a measure of safety; in time of peril we could straighten our legs and stand up, and let the donkey walk from under. [5]
- Anybody can get up and straighten out his character. [5]
- She'd straighten herse'f up an' put her fists in her hips an' say, 'I want you to understan' dat I wa'n't bawn in the mash to be fool' by trash! [5]
- It was necessary to take an account of stock, and straighten it out. [5]
- Jest get him to shet up them books of his, and take hold of anybody's troubles, and you'll see how he 'll straighten 'em out. [6]
- Now I'm willing to do this: I'll straighten everything up, get matters in smooth running order, and day after to-morrow I'll go to bed sick, and stay sick three weeks. [5]
- He had noticed the old man straighten himself with a spring and stand as though petrified when Ingolby said: "Why don't you turn on the light? [11]
- He made it sufficiently uncomfortable for the ambushed witnesses--to wit, Mordred, Agravaine, and twelve knights of lesser rank, for he killed every one of them but Mordred; but of course that couldn't straighten matters between Launcelot and the king, and didn't. [5]
- 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. [2]
- You could do so much to straighten things out, to prevent the worst. [11]
- For suddenly we saw the King shake off his indolent attitude and straighten up like a man, and at the same time look immeasurably astonished. [5]
- Especially in the presence of fashion and wealth would the independent American citizen straighten his backbone, reassuring himself that he was as good as anybody. [4]
- Not large ones, perhaps, still it is a friend's duty to straighten such things out and get them right when he can. [5]
- She did not look at him, but had risen and begun to straighten out the papers beside her. [9]
- Congratulate me, Ching-Fool In ten days more I shall step upon the shore of America, and be received by her great-hearted people; and I shall straighten myself up and feel that I am a free man among freemen. [5]
- He told me if I'd only straighten out I could be anything, in reason. [9]
- He looked at her, tried to straighten up, and fell back again. [9]
- He wanted my help to straighten things out, and he got it. [11]
- Now and then he got a job of surveying to do, and now and then a merchant got him to straighten out his books. [5]
- To straighten, to comfort, and to heal: this is the aim of his life too. [10]
- Well, we have come within hail again; and now, don't you think that you might help to straighten this tangle, and try to arrange a reconciliation between those two? [11]
- Perhaps it was a sort of vanity, perhaps a kind of courage, which made him resolutely straighten himself, in spite of the deadly weight dragging his shoulder down. [11]
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