unfasten
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For 12 days, we shared every moment and, surrounded by the kind of beauty only a remote bay in the Pacific could afford, I felt something unfasten in my chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
To serve the cheesecake, run a knife around the outer edge to loosen it from the pan, then carefully unfasten the sides of the pan and transfer the cheesecake to a cake plate or stand.
From Fox News ● Dec. 16, 2021
Operators are supposed to unfasten all of the seat belts after each ride so the next load of people can be buckled in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
Turn off the heat, allow the pressurized steam to escape, then unfasten the lid and check for doneness; you want your beans to be very tender and quite creamy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2018
Mamá lets go of me and reaches up to unfasten her gold necklace with the small Star of David on it.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The bearded guy in front of us unfastens his earflaps and says, chuckling, “Haven’t you guys ever stood in line for beer before?”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
One Atlanta man unfastens his seat belt, and turns off his hearing aid, as soon as he starts his new Impala.
From Time Magazine Archive
Home for the busy man about Brazil these days is where he unfastens his seat belt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I give it a press and the clasp unfastens.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
An old friend used to call these neither-here-nor-there realms the “zero world” for the way they feel unfastened from reality, parallel to daily life but separate.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
The maintainers next unfastened the warhead from the missile and placed it in a specialized truck.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Very quietly, so as not to wake Abby, she unfastened the zip of the tent.
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
Sempill and Dollfus, whose belts were unfastened, were flung out.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022
Mrs. Sen unlocked her door and turned toward Mr. Sen, who had not yet unfastened his seat belt.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Kondo brought garments to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
He must have disembarked in Cold Lake, where they had stopped so briefly that Vaughn hadn’t even bothered unfastening her seat belt.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2022
Fastidiously spend a couple of minutes unfastening all the straps before you can sit down?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2019
“Help me! I am here,” Mr. Capello replied, unfastening his seatbelt, and climbing over the seats, through the smashed rear window.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
“He needs me,” I said, finally unfastening the BiPAP myself.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
