unstrap
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Mookie Betts didn’t have time to toss his bat, unstrap his shin guard or take even a half-step toward first base.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2023
Competitors are not allowed to unstrap their helmets before their bike is racked.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
"We're in zero-g for around four minutes, and we get to get out of our seats, unstrap, float around, look at the thin limb of the Earth's atmosphere," Bezos told CBS News.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2021
The flight reached its apogee at 282,000 feet — 53.41 miles — where the passengers were able to unstrap and experience weightlessness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2021
He waited, watching the thin man unstrap the fighters' headguards and shake a black pencil of a finger in their faces.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
After my ride, I unstrapped the unit thinking it was off, but an active arm snapped back with full force.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
She pulled to the side of the freeway and unstrapped him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
McMorris unstrapped his board and chucked it through the air.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
I strapped and unstrapped Lily in and out of car seats.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2014
He fieldstripped the carbine—it was full of sand—and cleaned it as carefully as he could under the conditions, sitting against the base of the seawall with his steel helmet unstrapped.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
As the ambulance was taking Mr. Jaccarino to Beth Israel Medical Center, the police said, he began unstrapping a belt that secured him to a stretcher inside the vehicle.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2012
Avoid wasting precious time, or even worse, unstrapping your back binding to skate through the flats, by hot waxing your board the night before riding.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Genelle is unstrapping them, she's holding Rosa's hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had been in the process of unstrapping the protective plate.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Then, quickly unstrapping himself, he rose from the chair and trotted toward the station wagon.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
