Sentence examples for straighten something out from inspiring English sources

He needed the afternoon to drive to his bank, in Baltimore, to straighten something out and get some money.

Redford also used the conference as an opportunity to "straighten something out" about how he believes he's come to be viewed by many industry members for so closely aligning himself with the independent film movement.

By B. N. Rein and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, December 7, 1946 P. 33 A businessman had to go to Washington to try to straighten something out with the government and got chivied about on the telephone when he attempted to make an appointment with a man he had been told to see, a Mr. Hooper.

"Steve told me that I have to do something to straighten this out and I understand that," Valentine said.

A shim is a bit of wood used to stop a  table wobbling; it's also a cocktail that's relatively low in alcohol – something to straighten you out but not knock you sideways.

But that's something that will straighten itself out with maturity".

But before Sunday's game, Valentine, without being asked about it, volunteered that General Manager Steve Phillips had told him he had to do something to straighten out the Mets' problems.

Question: As a longtime reader of The Times' advertising pages, something has baffled me for years, and I hope you can straighten me out on it.

It's just something we have to straighten out.

He'll straighten it out".

Every- thing will straighten itself out somehow.