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Discover LudwigThe phrase "straighten her" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It can be used in contexts where someone is being helped to improve their posture, behavior, or situation.
Example: "After a long discussion, I finally managed to straighten her out on the issue."
Alternatives: "set her straight" or "correct her"
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Then she began to straighten her own.
Hester tries to straighten her daughter's necklace, and the child slaps her hand away.
She helped the girl collect herself, straighten her bones, pick her books off the floor.
She has had surgery on one hand, and can no longer straighten her right arm.
Symonea needed time to straighten her hair and pick out her clothes.
But she managed to stay clear of the other drivers and straighten her car out.
She also had several operations to straighten her feet and her eyes.
"They're two little white shoes hard as rocks because they had to straighten her feet," Ms. Johnson said.
And she remembered that Esther's mother couldn't straighten her pinkie finger, "because of something Esther did — with a knife".
He warned that she would never humiliate him again, and threatened to fly to Los Angeles to "straighten" her out.
As a child, Ms. Massey fought her curls, sleeping with rollers to try to straighten her hair.
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