Example Sentences

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When the next huddle broke up, Tsouderos was back in the driver's seat and all the members were straightening their ties.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lewis and Elliott, after the broadcast, were straightening each other out on the subject of Elliott's plunge in the Texas State Network a few years ago�the one Jesse Jones fished him out of.

From Time Magazine Archive

The guardians were straightening their papers and collecting their books and belongings.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

It will be dark by 8, and now at 6.45 it is high time we were straightening up our line, otherwise the forward positions will be enfiladed by night.

From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by Davidson, George

Two scrubbing-women were straightening the chairs, their backs turned to her.

From A Reversion To Type by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam