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Example sentences for: straightening

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

It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up "straightening out," as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups.
Say that you'd like e-mail delivery, give us your e-mail address (essential, obviously) and the name of your service provider (not essential, but helpful in straightening out problems), and we'll take it from there.
All this can be fixed, of course, with 10 grand of straightening, filling, sealing, and whitening.
"It's such a bureaucracy that poor people deal with that a lot of it is just straightening things out," said Anne Erickson, executive director of the Greater Upstate Law Project, which provides support services and updated legal information for offices like Legal Aid.
But, in case we do arrive at that point, I'm straightening my back and keeping my long, full skirts.