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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "straighten out" in a sentence

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    straighten out


    1. Let's see if we can straighten out some of these facts


    2. I always end up virtually buried inside the cover trying to straighten out the duvet so that it isn’t all clumped up in one corner


    3. I rubbed my forehead with my free hand, trying to straighten out my brain, trying to rub out the thoughts that should not be there, they needed to disappear


    4. You can fix the bugs when we get back to Earth, and it won’t take us long to straighten out the furniture and get things tidy


    5. She did not comply, but rather stood there, trying to straighten out her back, sore from all the walking with her hands tied so uncomfortably


    6. "When Elder Abraham went home from the church--he had stayed behind to straighten out the library books--he saw them shaking rugs in the Methodist graveyard


    7. straighten out something or another with their health


    8. Walter Thompson and Kincaid Advertising I was asked by my father to come home to straighten out the outdoor division he owned and restore it to profitability? And why after a couple of years, when that was done, did my father hire professional managers to run the company and move me into his broadcasting company? And after the outdoor division had slipped back into a loss situation, five years later, why was I asked to either take back its management or find another job? Was it because my father and I differed on which direction it should go? It was not easy to come to blows in the office and try to act like nothing had happened sitting around the dinner table at night


    9. If he didn't straighten out his thinking he'd end up one of those poor jerks who puts a gun to his head, merely on account of being dumped by a self-centered shrew


    10. you would be wise to either straighten out the problem with the

    11. He and I have something to straighten out


    12. “You know that would have taken me at least a week to straighten out, you did it in a few hours


    13. Aureliano Segundo took the children to look at the encyclopedia, as always, and Fer-nanda pretended to straighten out Meme’s room just so that he could listen to her muttering, of course, that it certainly took cheek for him to tell the poor inno-cents that there was a picture of Colonel Aureliano Buendía in the encyclopedia


    14. With my peaceful approach and set of activities to straighten out the economy, I would like the support of the rest of the nation to push for this solution, as we are in desperate straights and need to act to save our nation quickly


    15. Bottom line – if you are having any problems in your marriage, commit your life and your marriage back into God the Father’s hand, and ask Him to help heal, restore, and straighten out any thing that needs repairing


    16. Hester righted herself, and tried to straighten out her short graying hair a little


    17. Straighten out a paper clip with the intention


    18. swore they could "straighten out" men and women


    19. I closed my phone and laid on my bed, then lay back and stared at my ceiling as I tried to straighten out my twisted thoughts


    20. Knowing that if he didn’t straighten out soon he’d lose all control, he reached for the boards

    21. It took four hours to straighten out the mess that Alexandra had created, and it was the best four hours that the employees of Berkley and Mathews had ever known


    22. The final step was to straighten out the


    23. As you straighten out one after another, others will require attention


    24. “Just arrest him and you can straighten out the rest later,” Nancy demanded


    25. A good way to argue this and straighten out the kinks is to simplify and condense it, thus:


    26. This is because mankind is, at last, becoming mentally centred, and hence we have in the world at this time the many and varied attempts to straighten out affairs along business, national, economic, social and other lines, to produce some system and order, and to bring about the re-arranging of all energies with the objective (unrealised consciously as yet) of inaugurating the New Age


    27. And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, "Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?"


    28. In business you don’t want to put yourself in the position of having to manage too much—if you buy fifty companies you then have fifty managements to straighten out


    29. The final strength of the loop does not appear to be affected either by making this twist or not, nor if the twist should straighten out in use


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    Synonyms for "straighten out"

    resolve settle come to terms solve compromise