How to Use set/put (something) straight in a Sentence

set/put (something) straight

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• If the record needed to be set straight in that regard, this was a chance to do it.
  — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• Moore had his eyes set straight across the field to a clock above one of the stadium’s restaurants.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2021
• After making par on 18, Schauffele gave a small nod to his caddie and to the crowd before calmly walking off the course, eyes set straight on the weekend.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
• Annie Lane tries to set straight a reader who has been having an affair with his mother-in-law and is thinking of leaving his wife for her.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
• He's also been open about his struggles with drugs and alcohol, and the Serpent admitting to having a tough road at times and needing to be set straight.
  — Leah Rocketto, Woman's Day, 1 Oct. 2020
• The rows of tables are madly out of line and have to be put straight, which, in fairness to those who have laid out the furniture, proves surprisingly difficult.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• Even the rediscovery of an artifact as provocative as the Clotilda didn’t guarantee that would be set straight.
  — al, 6 Dec. 2022
• Having been adopted into a loving, New England home, April Dinwoodie seemed fine – her life had been set straight.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
• The way things are going, Disney+ could be the place where the company experiments with new kinds of films that may be too risky to put straight into the theater, which means some exciting flicks could be on their way.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2020
• Most high-quality rosés today are made by a method called direct press, in which the grapes are picked earlier in the season, specifically for rosé, and then put straight into a press to extract the juice from the grape skins.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2021
• Four major misunderstandings, all in one sentence, which can now be comprehensively set straight.
  — Andrew Roberts, Time, 9 Nov. 2021
• On the other hand, sustainable aviation fuel is chemically identical to jet fuel and can be put straight into existing airplanes with no alterations or blended with existing fossil fuels.
  — Dallas News, 10 May 2022

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2024