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How to use straightens in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word straightens? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He stops and straightens to watch her traverse the courtyard, she lifts a hand in greeting but says nothing.
I do hope that she straightens out, but her actions merit real charges, and time in the can.
He straightens and stands oddly for a moment, staring blankly at the man crossing the underground parking lot twenty paces away.
He straightens up, leans on the broom handle and waits to see who drops by.
He straightens up from the foundations of the house he is helping to build.
While Travis' mother is at work, he straightens up the house and looks after his younger brother.
She pulls herself to her feet, drawing in a sharp hiss of breath as she straightens.
A bowler who when delivering the ball bends his elbow and then straightens it at release is deemed to sending a delivery that is not legal.
He straightens up into his delivery and blazes it into your glove so hard, dust rises, curling up like smoke.
She simply straightens her back and glared at the dwarf as if trying to intimidate him in to silence.
And it just straightens her hair, flattens it out perfectly.
She reaches her hand down to scratch her ankle, then straightens up again.
Spock stands up, and before he turns around to face Kirk, he straightens his jacket.
After the road straightens, look for a spacious car park on the left.
In this mode, the snake braces the posterior portion of its body against the tunnel wall while the front of the snake extends and straightens.
This pulling straightens the fibres and lays them between the wire pins of the storage drum's card cloth.
I obey, numb and foggy headed as the flivver straightens itself.
Examples from Classical Literature
Mrs. Stanton Bliss straightens out her chin dimple as she glares after the garbage truck, which is rollin' away in the distance.
This, as it approaches the shore, straightens up to the wall-fronted form, and then topples upon the land.
See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
Philip straightens himself, and his moodiness flies from him.
Twenty minutes before time for him to come home from work she straightens up the house, fixes her rat so it won't show, and gets out a lot of sewing for a ten-minute bluff.
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