unfasten
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For 12 days, we shared every moment and, surrounded by the kind of beauty only a remote bay in the Pacific could afford, I felt something unfasten in my chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
To serve the cheesecake, run a knife around the outer edge to loosen it from the pan, then carefully unfasten the sides of the pan and transfer the cheesecake to a cake plate or stand.
From Fox News ● Dec. 16, 2021
Operators are supposed to unfasten all of the seat belts after each ride so the next load of people can be buckled in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
Turn off the heat, allow the pressurized steam to escape, then unfasten the lid and check for doneness; you want your beans to be very tender and quite creamy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2018
Mamá lets go of me and reaches up to unfasten her gold necklace with the small Star of David on it.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The bearded guy in front of us unfastens his earflaps and says, chuckling, “Haven’t you guys ever stood in line for beer before?”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
Home for the busy man about Brazil these days is where he unfastens his seat belt.
From Time Magazine Archive
One Atlanta man unfastens his seat belt, and turns off his hearing aid, as soon as he starts his new Impala.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gloria unfastens her helmet, hangs it on her handlebar, and sighs.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
It was a photograph of a young Newsom at some glitzy gala with the top two buttons of his white shirt unfastened.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2025
An old friend used to call these neither-here-nor-there realms the “zero world” for the way they feel unfastened from reality, parallel to daily life but separate.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
Very quietly, so as not to wake Abby, she unfastened the zip of the tent.
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
His true devotion to the mouse was hidden just underneath: He unfastened the shirt’s top button to reveal a tattoo on his chest of Mickey Mouse flying a biplane.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
The robot unfastened her tool belt and draped it over a railing.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
Kondo brought garments to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
He must have disembarked in Cold Lake, where they had stopped so briefly that Vaughn hadn’t even bothered unfastening her seat belt.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2022
Fastidiously spend a couple of minutes unfastening all the straps before you can sit down?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2019
Could this be the start of a major unfastening of the strictures she lives under?
From New York Times ● May 4, 2016
People were unfastening my bindings and collecting my ski poles from where they poked skyward, askew, in their separate snowbanks.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
