How to Use straighten in a Sentence

straighten

verb

• The drooping flowers straightened in the rain.
• He straightened the bent antenna.
• Then lift up the right leg and try to straighten it in the air.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• The goal of a silk press is to straighten the hair with the least amount of heat.
  — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
• But the car wouldn’t straighten, and the wall crept closer.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Take one deep breath in, and then straighten the right leg.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
• Then come home and have to straighten up and get ready for the next day.
  — jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Her early job was straightening the cans on the shelves of the store.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020
• Spin the wheel to the left and keep moving to straighten out your car and put it cleanly in the space.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022
• Ali spends his first night straightening the crooked art on the walls.
  — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• Her mom is trying to straighten her hair the whole time.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Dec. 2021
• To do this, straighten your leg and flex your foot (heel down, toes up).
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023
• Grasp the edge with straight arms and bend and straighten your elbows.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• But as the game wore on, the Cardinals got their hits to straighten up.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2022
• The treatment is then rinsed out and the hair gets blow-dried again, then straightened to seal it in.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 2 May 2023
• Pull your abs in and bend the knees to bring them over your head and then straighten the legs up toward the sky.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 29 Dec. 2020
• The break came at a good time for the Bears, who need to straighten out plenty of issues.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• Then straighten your arms and lift your torso and thighs up off the mat.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 17 Jan. 2021
• Beebe made sure to straighten up her living room for the event.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• Then straighten your right arm back as if trying to hit the back of the room with the dumbbell in the right hand.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 14 Oct. 2020
• Phogat slipped on her hot-pink shoes and straightened her pony-tail.
  — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
• That left enough time to straighten up your work area before the boss got there.
  — Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
• One of the members of the Chiefs' medical team worked on the knee to help straighten it out.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
• If your car fails to straighten out, put it in neutral to try to slow down the movement.
  — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
• Bend the knee to release some of the tension, and then straighten again against the resistance.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• Instead of trying to take the easy way out, straighten your spine, fess up and do the right thing.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 1 June 2020
• The hamstrings bend our knees, straighten our thighs, and help to rotate our legs when the knee is bent.
  — Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2022
• Tim’s car clears the hamlet of Renick, and the road flattens and straightens into a stretch called the Renick flats.
  — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2020
• Her long hair was straightened and parted down the middle.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
• Betts said he’s spent most of his waking hours in the batting cage trying to straighten things out.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024