unstring
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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
"Now I pray thee to unstring it again," handing it to the bowman.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
But the constant mental fever under which he laboured was beginning to undermine a naturally-robust constitution, and to unstring the nerves of a well-made, powerful frame.
From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
An earnest, fluent talker, who could unstring his bow and throw a charm even over ordinary topics.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
Mrs. Bowen broke out again with a sort of violence; the years teach us something of self-control, perhaps, but they weaken and unstring the nerves.
From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
Uncle says that after you have been at work very hard it’s like unstringing the bow; and so it is.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Did he—as when, hunting in the forest of Rouen, he got the news of Harold's coronation—play with his bow, stringing and unstringing it nervously, till he had made up his mighty mind?
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
The archers, flushed and merry, were unstringing their bows once more, for in spite of the water glue the damp air took the strength from the cords.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Your nerves are on the rack, and will be the better for unstringing.
From Recalled to Life by Grant Allen
The good old priest, in the center of an attentive circle, is unstringing a few observations.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
By the time Gilgamesh sets out in search of immortality, he is already unstrung.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
We’ll leave our gloves, with their humble histories, just as they are, somewhat unstrung by time and use, like us.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
A whole row of unstrung bows in varying stages of repair or build rested on a worktable, and hundreds of bushels of arrows were stacked into pyramids on the floor beside them.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
