unstring

Example Sentences

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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

That such emotion could so unstring Louis Arnold was a marvel.

From Other Things Being Equal by Wolf, Emma

What I have recently gone through with is quite enough to unstring the nerves of a stronger woman than I am, and what must be my condition?

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

"You are so sympathetic that such things unstring you."

From The Desired Woman by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

The morning is positive; in the evening we muse and dream and take our ease, we see our friends, we unstring the bow, we indulge our social instincts.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John