Example Sentences

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The Trojans’ defense certainly didn’t help matters, in spite of assurances that it had ironed out its issues over three standout, second-half performances.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025

Wagner quickly deleted the tweet and the following week Wagner said he “mishandled the situation’’ and that he had talked to Thomas and the two had ironed things out.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2018

But by game time, Baxter had ironed out the mistakes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2016

Caitriona, we learn, was a lovely corpse: “You were as clean and smooth as if they had ironed you out on the bed.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2015

It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I’d feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett