How to Use iron out in a Sentence

iron out

verb
  • The board would first have to approve, and the specifics of any plan would then be ironed out.
    Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Pay was one of the last issues to be ironed out during the talks.
    Keith Naughton, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • There will be plenty of time to iron out the kinks that come from those changes.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The deal still needs court approval, and some of the details are yet to be ironed out.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But first, there are a few details that need to be ironed out.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, details on a network and timetable weren't ironed out.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2023
  • On the third hole, with a massive tree in front of him, Homa blasted his iron out of the rough.
    Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 May 2025
  • But not at least until some of this stuff gets ironed out.
    Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The city will give one well-rounded set of comments and things will get ironed out in the next phase.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 29 July 2025
  • The Patriots weren’t able to iron out all their wrinkles in the Iron City.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Google ironed out those early flaws, and still has a more than 90% share of the search market.
    Billy Perrigo/san Francisco, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The waffle weave doesn’t wrinkle, so there’s no need to get your iron out.
    Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In its prototype form, there are a few things still to iron out.
    Alex Goy, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
  • However, there are things that need to be ironed out between him and the team.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • Experts say the effects of the order aren’t clear and will likely take a while to iron out.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
  • There are details of agentic AI that must be ironed out.
    Tom Dunlop, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • But that feels like something good coaching should be able to iron out.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But Emmanuel Macron, France’s leader, said the specifics of such a force were still being ironed out.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That means Payton and his staff have likely helped the 25-year-old iron out some wrinkles in his game.
    Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The temporary suspension of sales will take a week if not more to iron out.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Stern notes that some of the finer details are yet to be ironed out, however.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Super Bowl kickoff is four days away, and there are wrinkles to iron out.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Those details will be ironed out over the coming months and years, but the fields will remain at 68 teams, at least for one more year.
    Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There is still training camp and preseason to iron out the details, but the Steelers need to get to work fast.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • One point that does seem to have been ironed out is the question of who will administer Gaza.
    Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • The two had 18 months to plan, which gave them ample time to get creative and iron out every detail.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
  • This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Still, there are a few kinks to iron out first in order to get the green hydrogen industry off the ground.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2022
  • That meant districts and schools had to iron out their reopening schedules and day-to-day rules.
    Della Hasselle | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The human role is now to understand what to ask the models for the best results, and to iron out the inevitable problems that crop up along the way.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 July 2025

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