unmaking

Example Sentences

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Whether she will be his making or unmaking is an open question.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

What the voyage now represents is the unmaking of ideas from some of the great thinkers and creators of the age.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2025

Bess entered the room and immediately started unmaking the bed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022

There you go: the breaking, making and then unmaking of the world in under two minutes.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2021

Anyone with access to a compass and a clove of garlic could perform their own test, which is why the unmaking of the old ‘fact’ was so important.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton