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Example Sentences
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Claudius has made himself a monarch again, standing at the head of a shrieking horde of desperate peasantry who believe he can unbar the door to that heavenly place.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
She would have returned from her campaign with her baggage-train and her loot, and the palace would unbar its shutters and the morning flash back from its halls.
From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry
Still he began to unbar, though grudgingly, and in half a minute we had the door loose.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst!
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
The young girl hastened to unbar the door, which was locked from the inside, and as Imre entered she threw herself into his arms, while he pressed her fondly to his heart.
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Jókai, Mór
