How to Use straighten in a Sentence

straighten

verb
  • The drooping flowers straightened in the rain.
  • He straightened the bent antenna.
  • Push through the palms of your hands to straighten your arms.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Push through the soles of your feet and straighten your knees.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
  • Use the file to straighten the nail's free edge straight across.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Push through your palms to straighten your arms and lift your hips.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026
  • Her long auburn lengths were styled in a side part and straightened.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 28 May 2026
  • Then lift up the right leg and try to straighten it in the air.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Place your hands on the back of the chair and straighten your arms.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Step your left foot back wider than your hips and straighten the leg.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 16 July 2019
  • Phogat slipped on her hot-pink shoes and straightened her pony-tail.
    — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Push through both feet and squeeze your glutes to straighten your knees.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
  • Swap them out for wavy blowouts, straightened hair, and more styles.
    — Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Then come home and have to straighten up and get ready for the next day.
    — jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • To do this, straighten your leg and flex your foot (heel down, toes up).
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023
  • He was asked to straighten out the bus routes, which he was told were a mess.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Do not follow in my steps and straighten your hair.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • Do not follow in my steps and straighten your hair.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The goal of a silk press is to straighten the hair with the least amount of heat.
    — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Bring the knee back and straighten your leg to return to start.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Beebe made sure to straighten up her living room for the event.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Slowly straighten your arm back down to the floor.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Or lift your head and shoulders off the mat and straighten your legs.
    — Emma Yasinski, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • All Mars had to do was flick his wrist or straighten his ball cap.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Ali spends his first night straightening the crooked art on the walls.
    — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Grasp the edge with straight arms and bend and straighten your elbows.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Some people straighten out on (a) chair and go chair to chair.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • Then straighten your arms and lift your torso and thighs up off the mat.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 17 Jan. 2021
  • But it got straightened around pretty quick.
    — Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Release your hands, then straighten your legs and reach for your toes.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 28 Aug. 2025

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