Example sentences for: straightened

How can you use “straightened” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Though he paid for the two phones, he withheld paying his monthly fee until Sprint PCS straightened out his case and gave him his rebate.

  • This was an AOL screw up, but we've straightened it out.

  • Well, I'm glad that's straightened out.

  • The Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has theorized that the utility of at the end of the day has been augmented by the various unresolved episodes lumped under the word "Whitewater," which call for an economical way of expressing the thought "when things finally get straightened out ..."

  • Of how, when tea was done, and everyone had stood,He reached for my head, put his hands over it,And gently pulled me to his chest, which smelledOf dung smoke and cinnamon and mutton grease.I could hear his wheezy breathing now, like the prophet's Last whispered word repeated by the faithful.Then he prayed for what no one had time to translate--His son interrupted the old man to tell him a groupOf snake charmers sought his blessing, and a blind thief.The saint pushed me away, took one long look,Then straightened my collar and nodded me toward the door.


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