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
She said nothing until he had got up and tried to unfix the ladder without success.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That, plucking to unfix an enemy, He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
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
"And wherefore say, good brother, that I would unfix thy principles of belief?" answered Clement.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir
