unclasp

Example Sentences

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Several of my cousins entered and I watched as they unclasped the lids of sundry spreads, all chattering away in a language I didn’t share.

From Washington Post

“My stomach turned, I unclasped my hands and my gaze plunged to the floor,” Murphy writes.

From New York Times

As her song, “Come on Children Everywhere” ended and campers of different backgrounds unclasped their hands from one another, she exhorted the unified bunch to “hold hands just a little longer.”

From Seattle Times

Finally, the other side of this country feels as though the hand that has covered its mouth has been unclasped.

From BBC

Although she is wealthy, influential and respected in the Nation, there are times when Check wishes she could “unclasp the confines of the feminine role like she unclasped her corset at night.”

From New York Times