unhook
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You have to come to a meeting spot at the border, unhook all your trucks and trailers, bring in another truck to bring it in to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
While trains and trucks also transport EVs, isolating and extinguishing fires is easier as workers can unhook a rail car and a trucker can pull over, said Frazee.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023
When doctors said it was time, they signed the necessary paperwork allowing the staff to unhook him from the machines.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2019
Hector’s good looks certainly helped unhook velvet ropes as a young man.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2019
I unhook Belle’s harness, tie her to a tree close to the wagon and campfire.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
He reels in the baitfish, unhooks it, rehooks it with the shark hook, and tosses the bobber, leader, and bait back out, before handing the shark rod to me.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2022
Mallory Sarver unhooks one, loosens the drawstring, reaches in and pulls out a tiny bird with a gray head, a brilliant yellow belly with black streaks and white stripes on its black wings.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018
He reels in both lines, unhooks the fish and transfers it to his son’s rig.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2016
The flap is connected with a unique clip that unhooks with a downward squeeze.
From Time ● May 10, 2016
She unhooks the locks, hollering back, “Maverick, Lisa, and Starr are here, Ma.”
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Truckers said they were cooking meals inside their cabs, sleeping where they unhooked their trailers to avoid overnight parking fees and waiting for rainstorms to clean their rigs rather than paying $100 for a wash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Once he’d parked the buggy, he unhooked the black box from its compartment, tucking this precious cargo underneath his arm.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023
They later unhooked him from the car and put him on the ground to wait for a shuttle to take him to a processing station.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Before the start of a news conference on Wednesday, officials unhooked their masks in quick succession, a staged gesture that deviated from past Covid-19 protocols.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
He unhooked his thumbs from the belt loops and made himself more upright, taking on a self-conscious air of menace.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Six months later, pain still radiated from his back into his legs as he ran up and down the floor of a warehouse hooking and unhooking cows from milking machines.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
He argues that endangering the subsidy would be "like unhooking a patient from intensive care".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2021
It’s simply about unhooking your brain from the harmful routines it has adopted around this particular device, and hooking it to better things.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
“I caught some snow all the way from Ohio,” he said, while unhooking a Kia SUV from the trailer bed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
In fact, the only requirement for fishing those lakes was a fast unhooking technique and a pitching arm in topnotch shape for throwing the trout back in the water.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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