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

An earnest, fluent talker, who could unstring his bow and throw a charm even over ordinary topics.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)

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 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

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 Burnham, Margaret