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After collecting their tools and making their way to the right-side exterior truss, the astronauts had just 35 minutes to unbolt the failed unit and install the replacement.

From Reuters ● Oct. 15, 2014

“What if I found a way to unbolt the metal screens and crawl through the fan ducts into your cell, would you let me do it?”

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2014

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service could not cut the spike as it was too thick, opting instead to unbolt it.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2014

Grissom, White and Chaffee tried — briefly — to unbolt the hatch, but they were quickly overcome.

From Time ● Jan. 28, 2011

When they reached the very bottom and the wall rose frowning above them, Lasaraleen was shaking so that she could not unbolt the gate.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

The monk woman unbolts a door, barely big enough for a medium-sized Labrador, and I stoop through.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2017

Some love seats and sofas are built with a frame system that unbolts easily once the dust cover on the bottom is removed, while others are a lot trickier to take apart.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2016

At the door he stops, collects himself, and quietly unbolts the door.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Enter Arethusa, L., with candle; she lights another; and passes to door, R., which she unbolts.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson

Friedrich cautiously rises; dresses; takes his money, his new red roquelaure, unbolts the Barn-door, and walks out.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle

Last April, as part of the city’s reconstruction of Victor Steinbrueck Park, the poles were unbolted from their plinths and delivered to Discovery Park, where they have rested side by side, unprotected from the elements.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

I unbolted doors, installed floating shelves and glued patches of octopus wallpaper for subtle humor.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

For example, a converted 1991 Porsche can be unbolted and retuned back to its original state.

From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2021

The impact unbolted a large crystal chandelier above the ambassador’s desk that missed his head by inches.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016

He unbolted the many locks of the office and grimaced as he looked around the room.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club.

From Time Magazine Archive

Someone whom I could not see was evidently unbolting and unlocking the principal entrance to the inn.

From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett

Then I crawled into the garret, descended through the darkened house, and, unbolting the door, went out and down across the grass to the orchard.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He therefore commenced proceedings by putting his arm over the half-door of the bar, coolly unbolting it, and leisurely walking in.

From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Then just as I too had begun to shuffle my frozen feet, I heard a scratching sound, the unbolting of a shutter, and Gervase drew up the sash softly.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch