unknot

Example Sentences

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“This one is for smaller buttons. ... This one helps unknot shoelaces and stuff like that,” she says.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2022

It is tempting, in hindsight, to wonder if his scholarship wasn’t a trail of bread crumbs — one long, unconscious attempt to unknot the riddle of his vexed self.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2020

O’Reilly said he was inspired to investigate after spending decades pondering why laces spontaneously unknot themselves – an intellectual niggle that intensified when he came to teach his daughter how to tie her laces.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2017

Our feet and spines will unknot, and high heels will fade from consciousness along with foot-binding and rib removal to shrink your waist.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

I crouched to unknot my frayed, triple-knotted laces.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee