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

Mrs. Bowen broke out again with a sort of violence; the years teach us something of self-control, perhaps, but they weaken and unstring the nerves.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean

Away then to loosen, to unstring the divine bow, so tense, so long.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

We do in fact as we grow older unstring the critical bow a little and strike a truce with invidious comparisons.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry

"You are so sympathetic that such things unstring you."

From The Desired Woman by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)