straighten

When he promises her that he’ll straighten out his life, he sounds as desperate as all the other bad men who’ve tried those same pleas on him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The researchers identified four characteristics that can help determine whether a tilted tropical cyclone is likely to straighten vertically.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

“You want to straighten out your press,” Trump said before bringing the conversation to an end.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

“You have New Orleans, which has a crime problem. We’ll straighten that out in two weeks, easier than D.C.,”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

She could heal up a wen on the finger, or straighten a bone with her weeds, but only when she wanted to.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

They then performed leg extensions, an exercise in which a person sits and straightens the lower legs against resistance to lift a weight.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Mercator map is arguably the best for this purpose, because it straightens out spiraling rhumb lines, and that’s why it rose to dominance.

From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

He visibly straightens and says to Drummond, “Devour feculence,” establishing that this is how he naturally speaks.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025

He straightens up, pausing in front of each stock car, yelling through the slats and then waiting for a response.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

“It’ll be back down once we get things straightened out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

A section of the River Kemp, in south Shropshire, had been straightened by landowners in the 1800s, disconnecting it from its natural floodplain and reducing biodiversity.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

A very kind woman working behind the desk straightened me out: I was being too literal.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025

Bigklit, formerly Indigo Vanity: That’s what a lot of people knew me for: the curly, big half-pink, half-black hair with my straightened bangs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

It wasn’t my fault that I’d inherited my mom’s height, and just to press the fact, I straightened my spine so I could look down at him.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

His grand goal was to reduce flooding, ease navigation and expand commercial shipping capacity by straightening the river’s course and shortening the distance between Basel and Bonn by 50 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

For centuries, the UK has modified landscapes to move water off the land as quickly as possible by draining uplands and peatlands, straightening rivers and disconnecting rivers from floodplains.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

"Expansion and straightening cause water to drain away into the North Sea and Baltic Sea even faster, rather than being retained in the surrounding area."

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

West of Hoover Street, the grid reorients itself, straightening into an American-style street grid.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

“You and Aunt Florentine were such a pair,” said Mama, straightening up and repositioning the clip in her hair.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles