unloosen

Example Sentences

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"We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work."

From Time Magazine Archive

They fished them out later from their slimy couch, and found that they had clasped one another so tightly in their mortal agony that it was deemed impious ever to unloosen that embrace.

From Alone by Douglas, Norman

They may hasten a little the advent of that current, they may a little intensify its effect, but they have not the power to either unloosen it or stop it.

From The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 by Kahn, Otto Hermann

She began to unloosen from her hood her jewel, which was a rose fashioned out of pink shell work set with huge dewdrops of diamonds and crowned with a little crown of gold.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox

With a nod of farewell, John Parker and his wife started riding down the draw, while Farrel turned to unloosen his saddle-girth and adjust the heavy stock-saddle on the pinto's back.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)