What is "straightening"

Usage examples of "straightening".

Already, with actorish skills, he was firming up his eyes and straightening his back.

Straightening, he went out to Azar who now stood with her hand lightly resting on the wall.

Brassica oleracea, circumnutation of the radicle, of the arched hypocotyl whilst still buried beneath the ground, whilst rising above the ground and straightening itself, and when erect--Circumnutation of the cotyledons--Rate of movement--Analogous observations on various organs in species of Githago, Gossypium, Oxalis, Tropaeolum, Citrus, Aesculus, of several Leguminous and Cucurbitaceous genera, Opuntia, Helianthus, Primula, Cyclamen, Stapelia, Cerinthe, Nolana, Solanum, Beta, Ricinus, Quercus, Corylus, Pinus, Cycas, Canna, Allium, Asparagus, Phalaris, Zea, Avena, Nephrodium, and Selaginella.

There were only a few cuppers left tending the long rows, straightening the occasional collection cup.

I jumped down from the high tailgate, raced around the pickup, and was just in time to see Dak and Alicia straightening and pulling up their pants.

Presently a one-horsed, two-wheeled vehicle known as an ekka arrived with four more troopers, who joined the first party, straightening their tunics but not seeming to have anything to say.

Placido Geist pulled the bit back, not sawing at her mouth, but straightening her neck.

He did a little straightening himself, hating the whole fumbling business.

Straightening, Noal slipped a knobbly hand beneath his coat, where he kept two long-bladed knives.

We were still chuckling at having seen Lionel from HELP, paged by the nurse, checking out the room numbers and then, with a spiffy straightening of his Blazer and forelock, entering the room of the Lady of the Lice, the room crawling with the crabs.

Nicholas Loder and his friend Rollo, and it was because they were crowding him, I thought, that Dozen Roses swung round on his leading rein and pulled backwards from his lad, and in straightening up again hit the Rollo man a hefty buffet with his rump and knocked him to his knees.

Straightening up, Forsythe smiled again as Ronyon backed up hastily to stand beside Pirbazari.

She got up, brushing off her jeans and straightening her floppy hat-the sarape had apparently been left behind as excess baggage.

His bed was unmadenot that it entailed more than straightening the linen sheet on the leather straps criss-crossing the low wooden framebut the dressing table had only a comb in addition to the mirror, and on the floor beside it was a pewter basin with his shaving brush, razor and a jug of soapberry juice.

His bed was unmade not that it entailed more than straightening the linen sheet on the leather straps criss-crossing the low wooden frame but the dressing table had only a comb in addition to the mirror, and on the floor beside it was a pewter basin with his shaving brush, razor and a jug of soapberry juice.