As President it was my duty to straighten out the financial situation.
Aside from drama, it was going to take half an eternity to straighten out the underworld without the distraction of a woman in his life.
He said he needs some time to straighten out his head.
It is the spinner's business to straighten out these fibres, with the aid of machinery, and then to so join them that they become a thread, which is known as spun silk.
The outermost layer of the cell-wall of the ripe spore splits along spiral lines, giving rise to the elaters; these two long strips of wall, attached by their middle points to the spore, tend to straighten out in dry, and close round the spore in damp air.