Straighten in a sentence as a verb

But if Obama doesn't straighten this out soon, it's going to be him.

Congress has the power, and could use it, to straighten this entire thing out.

He just needed somebody to come along and tell him "XYZ" and then straighten his **** out".

This allows them to rapidly straighten their bodies and blast forward in one swift stroke to seize prey.

I remember sitting in her apartment and watching her gleefully straighten and count a pile of small bills.

If no customers were nearby, you were expected to clean, straighten, and develop photos.

For example, one can straighten the trajectory, but then, costs would balloon to be at least on par with the existing high speed rail system.

If business was especially good, you had no time to straighten shelves and got dinged for the store's good fortune by management.

Primarily, you need to straighten out your framework - "identity theft" isn't actually a real thing.

Once you have bent a metal beam outside the elastic region you can't just remove the external force and wait for it to straighten itself out!

Monopolies and oligopolies neutralize the market's usual power to straighten things out.

In the first few weeks after, there was a growing feeling that maybe this was finally the time that the US would straighten out and take a deep and serious look at our own actions and policies.

We apply criminal punishments to dangerous criminals, and try our best to help everyone straighten out their lives after interaction with the criminal justice system.

And I won't shed any tears on their demise; for their existence is only because of technological shortcomings, and capitalisms very nature is to straighten the process and eliminate them.

Classifying them all as assumed-invalid would send a very clear message to the patent office that it seriously fouled up and needs to straighten up in evaluations, and also let patent trolls know that their payday is over.

If your actual processing deviates from those values significantly, the risk department will almost definitely hold your funds in a reserve account until they straighten things out with you and establish you're still operating within the bounds of the risk profile established when they opened your account.

Straighten definitions

verb

straighten up or out; make straight

See also: unbend

verb

make straight

verb

get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered"

verb

put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!"

See also: tidy neaten

verb

straighten by unrolling; "roll out the big map"

verb

make straight or straighter; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair"