unscrew
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They can navigate mazes, use tools and unscrew jars — sometimes from the inside out.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
As Alemu helped her young children unscrew parts while she rewired their toys, she hoped they’d take away a much larger lesson about sharing.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Take a moment and unscrew the lids of the cumin and chili powder jars, sniff, and see what moves you.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
It took the man just a few seconds to unscrew a steel plug, smaller than a coffee mug.
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
She ask how you unscrew a lightbulb that done broke off in the socket and I tell her a raw potato.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
You might think it unscrews to let you get inside.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
After 10 minutes of intermittent whirring, Wesley lays down the device and unscrews the top of a closed Petri dish connected to the machine with a rubber tube.
From The Verge ● Jul. 8, 2014
The top corks tightly to keep water fresh and cold, and the bottom unscrews for easier cleaning.
From Inc ● Oct. 29, 2012
“It unscrews and all the pieces nest, so they stack,” Elizabeth Thompson, the institute’s executive director, said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2011
Alicia's father studies the diagram while Dad unscrews the metal bottom of the blanket controller.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
"The plunger needs to be unscrewed and disassembled to get all the oils and coffee grounds out," he says.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
Susannah unscrewed the lid of a doll’s pink plastic sippy cup and held the cup out to Mr. Rosen.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
Investigators discovered that a clamp nut threaded into the barrel of the actuator and that connects the top of the assembly to the stabilizer had unscrewed from the barrel.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Then, when he was so thirsty that he could hardly stand it anymore, he unscrewed the cap, turned the canteen over, and poured it all out onto the dirt.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
This is why you let an incandescent bulb cool off before unscrewing it.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
The Czech government announced on Thursday it was unscrewing half of lightbulbs at the government office and swapping remaining old bulbs for less-consuming LED sources.
From Reuters ● Sep. 22, 2022
On newsreels after that date you can see royals experimenting with different forms of waving, including the Queen as a girl trying out the type of rotating wave that looks like unscrewing an light bulb.
From BBC ● May 31, 2022
Some say they’ve resorted to unscrewing some of their light bulbs from light fixtures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
“Like unscrewing your chair from your desk, or tearing a hole in the bottom of your backpack.”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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