unstring

Example Sentences

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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

"Co-Tan," he said, "unstring your bow—these are my friends, and yours."

From Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

My nerves unstring, my friend; my flesh grows weak: "The good that I do I leave undone, The evil which I would not, that I do!"

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

We meet only an embarrassment of choice when we start to unstring the chaplet of our carking cares.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise

As we had no hearers we used to give wonderful expression to our singing, possibly it was lucky no one could hear us, for it would certainly unstring their nerves.

From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Suffling, Ernest R. (Ernest Richard)