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
I myself often tremble for my life—art as a profession is so likely to unstring one's nerves.
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
And this wave of passion that ran through his veins seemed to unstring his nerves, weaken his purpose, and cast a mist of love over his courage.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
The scene is one to strike dumb with awe, or to unstring the nerves; one might stand in silent astonishment, another would burst into tears.
From Our Italy by Charles Dudley Warner
We meet only an embarrassment of choice when we start to unstring the chaplet of our carking cares.
From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee
Your nerves are on the rack, and will be the better for unstringing.
From Recalled to Life by Grant Allen
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
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
The remembered fact brought with it a degradation of mind and body—a complete unstringing of the moral fibres, which made even revenge seem an impossible output of energy.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
His liveliest sallies, his bitterest jests, were all reserved for these occasions, so that mirth or anger was forever unstringing the nerves of his competitors, and diminishing their chance of gain.
From Bred in the Bone by James Payn
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
Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
