straighten

Example Sentences

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He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil.

From BBC

She says every effort thereafter to straighten things out met the runaround.

From The Wall Street Journal

He has said that cities with Democratic political leadership such as San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles “are very unsafe places and we are going to straighten them out.”

From Los Angeles Times

Or could the head of the country's supreme audit institution, another Socialist named Pierre Moscovici, help straighten the country's finances?

From Barron's

Now, it is helping the company straighten up its balance sheet—and getting its hands on a major business in return.

From The Wall Street Journal