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

Mr. Snobbe requests all persons having nerves to be unstrung to unstring them now.

From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick

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

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

That such emotion could so unstring Louis Arnold was a marvel.

From Other Things Being Equal by Wolf, Emma