Again he thundered some words at me, and the guard endeavoured to pull me to the ground; but I straightened myself, folded my arms, and looked proudly at this modern and literal Black Prince.
She was leaning over them wolfishly, and presently straightened herself and stared at a dark wall and told how early one spring she had gone to a Primrose League picnic ("Mother brought me up as a Consairvative.
But she knelt down and set them cross-wise, and then straightened herself and crooked her arms above her head, and began to dance a sword-dance.
Oh," murmured Roger, and was silent until Richard put out his hand and straightened the gloves, making them lie parallel with the grain of the wood.
Old Jonathan straightened more than once to view with pride the results of their work.
The old man straightened his shoulders--at least he tried to!
Mrs. Eaton straightened to an appropriate dignity of bearing.
Did Nancy imagine that she heard a rustling, as though Aunt Sabrina had suddenly straightened in her chair?
In the swamp, the river should be straightened and deepened.
The sharp bend of the Han River just before it joins the Yangtze should be straightened so as to make a gentler curve around Lungwangmiao Point and thus enable the currents of both rivers to flow in the same direction at their junction.
At these words Martin's face darkened, and he straightened himself up with a sudden jerk.
With a slight forced laugh she straightened herself up, and resumed her former calm manner.
If the rickets is still active, and the bones are soft and yielding, standing and walking should be forbidden, the limb should be straightened by manipulation and the correct position secured and maintained by an outside splint and bandage.
The following day I sat up with my legs resting on a chair, straightened out, and hot flat irons at my knees.
The limbs should be straightened before the body becomes stiff (rigor mortis).
It is too bad that your mother cannot be here, for then André thinks the whole thing could be straightened out at once.
Frank nodded his head gloomily, but none of the boys felt like talking then, and sat silent as their pilot got his bearings and then straightened out swiftly in the direction of the American lines.
Instantly he straightened up, and as he did so the butt of his rifle knocked against the door.
Now beneath the helmet the head of a man appeared, then the shoulders, and finally the sentry, evidently satisfied that his suspicion had been without foundation, straightened out to his full length.
I've got the wine glasses straightened out, but it seems a lot of fuss about nothing.
But that morning, after they had settled to bridge, she followed me to the rail, out of earshot I straightened and took off my cap, and she stood looking at me, unsmiling.
I straightened out my fingers, conscious for the first time of my clenched fists, and even opened and closed them once or twice to prove their relaxation.
He straightened in his chair, and spoke more earnestly.
Only, as the recital proceeded, his eyes hardened slightly and his closed lips straightened into a stern, inflexible line.
Ann straightened herself and made a snatch at her fugitive dignity.
Chancing one day to meet beside a brook that ran by the farmhouse, the cock straightened himself up and said: “Look at my long and graceful tail-feathers, and compare them with the short stubby quills in your tail.
Elizabeth saw that he was restless to get once more into Elsie's presence, painful as the interview must be to him, so she smoothed his hair, straightened his necktie and accompanied him downstairs.
Instantly Thursday Smith straightened up and looked at the man questioningly.
Patsy straightened up with a sigh of relief, then gave a low cry as the screens of the two windows of the pressroom were smashed in and through the openings men began to tumble into the room.
The agent straightened up, his face wreathed with smiles, and cast an "I told you so!
They lie extended on thestraightened path Whose narrow close, the grave, must end it all.
Garvin straightened a little under its warning note.
He straightened instantly, and Ann also stiffened, moving only to give them room to pass.
Sikes straightened up with a start, and stared blankly in the direction indicated.
As soon as some business is straightened out here, it's back to Broadway.
The little marshal straightened up, and took a step forward; the light from the cabin window glistened wickedly on the blue steel of his gun barrel.
The lawyer's voice had fallen, all the threat gone, and the younger man straightened in his chair.
Lacy straightened up, all semblance of indifference gone, an oath on his lips.
Her body straightened into new resolve, all her womanhood called to the front by this emergency.
The larger wrote both names in the register, and then straightened up, and surveyed the landlord.
The four men straightened up as her voice ceased speaking.
For a moment he held so and then straightened slowly.
He straightened himself to his full height, throwing back his head with an air of freedom and conscious pride, while an expression of great joy illumined his eyes.
With a look of sudden determination, he straightened himself, put forth his hand, and grasped the Winchester heirloom.
The girl had straightened herself, and stood calmly and without embarrassment at my side.
Then, as the girl stopped and caught her breath sharply from sheer stress of feeling, the little lady looked up again and straightened herself with a gesture of pride.
He looked at them, straightened them slowly out, and buried them in his pockets.
Here it slowly straightenedto the form of a man and, after a moment’s hesitation, stepped out upon the moonlit strip of sand which it crossed with noiseless tread.
The passenger likewise straightened up and demanded the reason for the sudden stop.
At these words, Slade straightened in his chair with an involuntary start of surprise and the furtive look that flashed into his black eyes proved a sudden inspiration to Ned, who was watching him keenly.
The new boy straightened from the box he was preparing to lift and turned toward the speaker a freckled countenance.
As he spoke, Ned shifted his grip close to one end of the bar and that portion of the crooked iron straightenedslowly in his grasp.
Two minutes later Drummond's successor was retiring to the pavilion, while the wicket keeper straightened the stumps again.
Psmith leaned against the wall, and straightened out the damaged garment.
He straightened himself and brushed a bead of perspiration from his face with the back of his hand.
Thitherward, like an arrow, the Rainbow-worm straightened himself forward and followed until his face looked into the Lake of the Ancients, the mists whereof were to him breath and substance.
Instinctively he straightened in his chair, and his glance at the other two young men showed that they had quite as involuntarily straightened in theirs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straightened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
