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
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 Light That Failed by Kipling, Rudyard
Dawn, and the men unfix bayonets as they step down from the fire-step and clean their rifles with pull-throughs.
From Tales of War by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
From Macbeth by Shakespeare, William
Presently they saw a sailor sliding down the rope to unfix the anchor.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
