unbrace
Example Sentences
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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2020
And to unbrace the bandages of state Is as clear air to incense-stifled souls.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
He said, and turn'd his brother's vengeful mind; He stoop'd to reason, and his rage resign'd, No longer bent to rush on certain harms; His joyful friends unbrace his azure arms.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Together all set their sheets, and all at once slacken their canvas to left and again to right; together they brace and unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
But wasting years, that wither human race, Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
