Sentence examples for setting straight from inspiring English sources

Our conversations slide through time, and we dwell often on setting straight the town record.

In his one departure from archi tectural studies during his 65‐ year career, Dr. Dinsmoor succeeded in setting straight the tangled chronology of Hel lenistic Athens.

Here he is registering to vote, 'feeling like a fool', to a Bo Diddley beat, and speculating whether 'the heart can be filled to the brim' to a sinuous synth setting straight from Eno numbers like 'Deep Blue Day'.

(Picture book; ages 6 to 9) "Much of what we think of as the Wild West was simply made up," Adkins writes, setting straight the legends popularized by William Frederick Cody (a k a Buffalo Bill): "The myth was ­ballyhoo, but the man behind it was absolutely genuine".

The process of law, the very foundation upon which our society is based, is being held up this afternoon for one reason, and one reason only: because you need setting straight, young man.

I don't want to go to bed at night without having apologized or setting straight anything that I have done or said to someone else that might have hurt them.

The record is now set straight.

HISTORY has been set straight.

The record needs to be set straight".

Her hair could easily set straight or wavy.

It's time the record was set straight".