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How to use righted in a sentence

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But the frigate rallied and righted while the sea streamed below decks, though her hatches were laid and her hawseholes bagged.
The foundation problems were solved, the grain elevator was righted, and it is still in use.
After the chute was inflated the glider rotated a few times and righted itself.
The outcome also satisfied the public sense of outrage at an obstinate governmental bureaucracy and at an injustice eventually righted.
In the absence of the lamps, Tesha was unable to identify the shape until it righted itself and stood straight.
The dogs soon stopped, the cariole was righted, and the two unfortunates laughed out of all countenance.
She was struck by a heavy sea, thrown on her beam ends or rolled over, and finally righted with the loss of both masts.
He got lost searching for the computer room, and when he eventually did call me back, the system had already righted itself.
At this moment he wearied, wishing for nothing but a pause released from time in which he might lie low until the world was righted.
It was a situation that soon righted itself as numbers flocked through the door when the familiar sounds of Drive In Scene filled the room.
He righted his ruffled cloak, straightened his wrinkled shirt, and glared white hot anger at me.
The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, causing the two men swiftly to change position.
Perhaps these inequalities will be righted when the feminist revolution is more thoroughly assimilated.
He quickly slipped that rope and felt the board grab as the sneakbox righted itself again.
There is no action that ought to be taken in consequence, there is no injury that could be righted in that way.
There were a few moments of rhythmic disunity, in the third movement of Du wahrer Gott, for example, all of which were quickly righted.
There were no injuries and the vehicle was safely righted shortly afterwards.
As the galley righted itself, another wave struck from the other side, and the ship heeled over so far its mainsail almost touched the water.
As we righted our machines the bus arrived and I'd never seen people move as fast.
She was a little dizzy from being righted to a standing position and Wrenn steadied her.
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The paramatta was still lying nearly over on her beam ends, but gradually her head began to pay off, and she slowly righted.
But Gadsden as suddenly caught him and righted him, and we proceeded to the twins.
Against the force of my turning rocket-streams this radiation had righted us.
After a struggle, she righted, but with nearly one-third of her filled with water.
The kind Swedes brought me on board, and also righted and returned with the shallop.
In a minute she was righted and they got her to the little beach where they had tried to land.
He seized the moment when the Tortoise righted after her first plunge, grasped a life buoy and flung himself overboard.
And as she thus righted her deck was filled with water level from rail to rail.
I had gone perhaps fifty feet below the keel with my dive when I righted.
The note of patriotism righted me and I looked a third time.
The Reindeer righted very slowly, and when she was on an even keel was so much awash that I doubted if she could be saved.
As she righted sluggishly, the mainmast swayed drunkenly in the air but did not fall.
Burgin, who had been on the helm, found himself in the water well clear of the yacht when she righted herself, mastless.
The Samoset rolled and righted on a sea, and in the light breeze her canvas gave forth a hollow thrum.
I got up, shook myself, righted the pulk, and commenced again.
Of a sudden the wind lulled, and the Circassian righted from her careen.
In four different tests, the rescue vessel righted itself to its normal position within a few seconds of capsizing.
Then she righted the tabouret, sat down on it and began on me.
After a long spell of effort, I succeeded in getting my cart righted, my oxen disentangled, and again yoked to the cart.
The wreck then righted, but was a mere hulk, full of water, with a heavy sea washing over it, and all the hatches off.
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