unbrace

Example Sentences

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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2020

What rules has he proposed totally to unbrace the slackened nerve; to shade the heavy eye of inattention; to give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle; or procure insensibility to the whole animal composition?

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel

Together all set their sheets, and all at once slacken their canvas to left and again to right; together they brace and unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Terms of a Carver: Slice brawn, spoil a hen, unbrace a mallard, untache a curlew, border a pasty, thigh small birds, splat a pike, fin a chub, barb a lobster.

From Early English Meals and Manners by Furnivall, Frederick James

But wasting years, that wither human race, Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander