unstring
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That alone would’ve been enough for me to unstring my racquets and call it a career.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 21, 2011
Peggy was not, as we know, a nervous girl, but the situation was enough to unstring the nerves of the most stolid of beings.
From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham
Mr. Snobbe requests all persons having nerves to be unstrung to unstring them now.
From The Dreamers A Club by John Kendrick Bangs
The very monotony of that dull measured walk was enough to unstring the nerves of a child, coming as it did in the middle of the night.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
What I have recently gone through with is quite enough to unstring the nerves of a stronger woman than I am, and what must be my condition?
From An Arkansas Planter by Opie Percival Read
The good old priest, in the center of an attentive circle, is unstringing a few observations.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
His liveliest sallies, his bitterest jests, were all reserved for these occasions, so that mirth or anger was forever unstringing the nerves of his competitors, and diminishing their chance of gain.
From Bred in the Bone by James Payn
Uncle says that after you have been at work very hard it’s like unstringing the bow; and so it is.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Your nerves are on the rack, and will be the better for unstringing.
From Recalled to Life by Grant Allen
Did he—as when, hunting in the forest of Rouen, he got the news of Harold's coronation—play with his bow, stringing and unstringing it nervously, till he had made up his mighty mind?
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
By the time Gilgamesh sets out in search of immortality, he is already unstrung.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
We’ll leave our gloves, with their humble histories, just as they are, somewhat unstrung by time and use, like us.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
He pushed them into circles and rows like unstrung beads; he scooped them into his hand and shook them like dice.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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