Sentence examples for were straightened from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause to become straight.
Upriver, stretches were straightened to prevent flooding of potential farmland.
Before things were straightened out Penn had lost two lengths.
Rivers were straightened, dykes built, water tables lowered, and peat cut on a large scale.
In the men's room, there was a line at the mirror, as combs streaked through hair and collars were straightened.
New machines were used to make sure trains' steel wheels were straightened, or "trued," so they would roll without scraping.
And all the while he was greeting people right and left... Oh! Oh! Oh! Ah Ah AhAh!" In 1914, Chagall returned to Vitebsk, where, Wullschlager writes, under Bella's eye his "dislocated perspectives were straightened out".
Straighten the braid like you were straightening your hair regularly.
Go over it as though you were straightening it (go straight down).
The shape is straightened out.
I'm glad my eye was straightened.
"Everything is straightened out now," he says.
