The operator simply marks the rotating shaft with chalk in the usual manner to show where it is out of true, and then straightens wherever it is found necessary.
SAVVA (sinking for a moment into profound, terrible meditation; then he straightens himself suddenly and seems to grow in stature; he cries out with a wild joy as if speaking above the heads of all to reach somebody far off) I am right!
When he straightens his garden, he straightens himself.
When he straightens up--and he generally straightens when up at all--he is five feet eleven, or thereabouts.
After each successive knot he still straightens this same end of the handkerchief.
Then the first boy's back straightens up and he goes leaping over his fellows and again gives a back, while the second follows, and so on until they are all tired and the game ceases.
When the exhibition is at an end, she straightens out in the position of a swimmer about to make a dive, and plunges behind the curtain representing the ocean.
The illusion produced is complete, seeing that the flexible blade straightens out on making its exit from the tube, on account of the form of the latter's extremity.
By check, and the powerful heave of a shore capstan, she warps in and straightens to the line of the docks.
The witness straightens up, the opposing lawyer sits back in disgusted contempt at such a loose method of procedure.
One of them straightens up and with a commanding voice cries out: "Gentlemen, please rise.
The judgestraightens up, sees the humor of the situation, and the fine is remitted.
Thar she gets combs an' breshes an' goes over her make-up an' straightens out her game.
She is bending over Chalmers, her hand on his wrist, when suddenly, as a sign he is recovering, he violently flings her hand off and straightens up.
This muscle, when it shortens, straightens or extends the limb, or lifts the foot from the ground and swings it forward as in walking, or raises the knee up toward the body when we are sitting or lying down.
Immediately it straightens it again, to plunge it a second time into the same flower.
The leg then suddenly straightens like a spring, and the foot being placed firmly on the ground, sends the insect into the air, and at the same time propels forward.
Having arrived on the saddle, the lady places her right leg over the crutch, while her attendant puts her left foot in the stirrup, adjusts any elastic loops that may be present, and straightens her skirt, as may be required.
Having finished the "prepare to mount" stage, she straightens her left knee by lightly springing upwards off the ground by means of her right foot, and at the same time pressing on her cavalier's shoulder so as to straighten her left arm.
She will not require to lift herself from the saddle, for the horse will put her up to the necessary height, if she straightens her left knee and prepares to rise at the right moment.
In this posture he remains for a while, Then he straightens himself up.
ROSE gets up hastily, straightens her hair and her dress and looks anxiously about her.
After ROSE has replaced bread, butter, the coffee pots and cups into her basket, she straightens herself up and seems to become aware of something in the distance which attracts her and holds her captive.
Then hestraightens up also his proud bust and takes his cap to follow Arrochkoa.
The poor kid looks like he'd stopped one with his chin and for the first time since I'd seen him, he straightens up with his hard, white face fairly quiverin'.
She nervously straightens out the papers on the table] Everything is in a muddle!
He takes his hand out of the bandage and straightens it quickly.
Suddenly he stops, straightens himself, holding the scissors in his hands, and looks around again.
If you find that the line snaps like a whip on the back cast, it is because you start the forward cast before the line straightens out behind.
He immediately straightens to an erect position, when the next player bends, takes up the bag, passes it over his head, and bends to place it on the floor at his right side.
Bracing his feet in the new position, he straightens his entire body upright, drawing the rear player after him until both are in the same relative position as at the start.
A player runs in with a stone in his hand, and while jumping places it on the ground, straightens up, picks up the stone again, and runs out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straightens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
