unfix
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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 William Shakespeare
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 Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Whereupon the Soudanese caught hold of the bayonet and tried to unfix it.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
To admit the genuineness of the "Acts" is to throw into confusion the little history that we certainly know, and to unfix the continuity of events.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
If the federal government were the only entity who could file these claims, then every small hotel chain with a broken ramp might go unfixed.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
About 2.6 million, or around 22%, of affected vehicles remain unfixed, according to an analysis of the latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Communal areas were neglected, lifts didn’t work and repairs went unfixed, Michele says.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
If left unfixed, it could have severely affected Euclid’s science mission and led to gaps in its map of the Universe.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Looking sullen, he sat beside me in the snow, awaiting the arrival of Lopsang, and the ropes were left unfixed.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Most brokerage houses, while technically unfixing their rates, still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few moments were suffered to elapse: and then, unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
By this time some fifty officers and blue-jackets were about the roof and ledge, some discussing, others unfixing lanterns and festoons, with shouted directions.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
