unloosen

Example Sentences

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"We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work."

From Time Magazine Archive

Lockhart sat back and began to unloosen his straps.

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen

They may hasten a little the advent of that current, they may a little intensify its effect, but they have not the power to either unloosen it or stop it.

From The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 by Kahn, Otto Hermann

Will drink unloosen it?" said the Colonel; "though I dare say thou hast tried that spell at every ale-house on the road.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

Hugh left them to unloosen her clothing and hastened out upon the veranda whereon the assassin must have stood when firing the shot.

From Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by Le Queux, William