unstring

Example Sentences

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That alone would’ve been enough for me to unstring my racquets and call it a career. 

From Newsweek • Jun. 21, 2011

If I had, I might ha' whistled for another, for my father wasn't quite so ready to unstring as some other fathers I know of.

From Silas Marner by Eliot, George

"Now I pray thee to unstring it again," handing it to the bowman.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"Co-Tan," he said, "unstring your bow—these are my friends, and yours."

From Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

My nerves unstring, my friend; my flesh grows weak: "The good that I do I leave undone, The evil which I would not, that I do!"

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas