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

His real expression was, 'that he would not unbrace a single nerve for any treaty France could offer; such was their entire want of faith, morality, &c.'

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

How eager would her tender hands unbrace The ponderous armour from my war-worn limbs, And pluck the helmet which oppos'd her kiss!

From Percy A Tragedy by More, Hannah

But wasting years, that wither human race, Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Gather those broad leaves, and all the rest, growing under the brushwood; unbrace his armour.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage