"straighten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It spoke of a man who might straighten bad pictures in strange hotel rooms.
- After dinner she wandered around her apartment, dusting things, straightening pictures on the walls, changing her bed, since she planned to do her laundry the next day.
- Relendess as ever, a man who always learns to speak the language of the land (at least some of it) and die customs of the country; he is still a man who would straighten pictures in strange hotel rooms.
- He will hear this voice in uneasy dreams for the rest of his life, never quite remembering what he has dreamed, only knowing that the dreams leave him feeling ill somehow-walking restlessly, straightening pictures in loveless rooms, listening to the call to muzzein in alien town squares.
- I stood with B. K. Bousande in the lounge of the Prince's private suite, watching servants I'd never seen before rushing round the room distributing bits of luggage and straightening pictures.
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