unfix
Example Sentences
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She was home from boarding school for the summer, and day after day the sun rose into a cloudless sky, from which Jane couldn’t unfix the word “cerulean,” which she’d learned in the art room.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2012
It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.
From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Rutherford, Mark
Of the so many I taught,"—here the students would begin to unfix drawing-pins or get their tubes together,—"the very so many that I have taught, the best was Binat.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard
What mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!
From On the Frontier by Harte, Bret
Benis has always had fixed ideas—though when he was young," she added with satisfaction, "I knew how to unfix them.
From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
