unstrap
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Competitors are not allowed to unstrap their helmets before their bike is racked.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Batters reach base, unstrap the protective armor guarding their shins and elbows, and hand them to — who else?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
"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
“When Tiger was 10 months old, I unstrapped him out of his high chair and he walked over and hit the ball,” Earl recalled on an HBO documentary about his son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
With the help of his father, also named Alfredo, he unstrapped the tractor from a trailer behind his pickup.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Kaplan sometimes unstrapped his guitar, flailed it toward the ground, enacting a release but not fully letting go.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2014
Taran unstrapped the weapons on Melyngar’s back and handed a bow and quiver of arrows to his companions, as well as a short spear for each.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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
As Genelle is unstrapping them, she's holding Rosa's hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It’s for my heart, they would say, unstrapping sopped Rolexes from their hairy wrists.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Then, quickly unstrapping himself, he rose from the chair and trotted toward the station wagon.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
