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
The morning is positive; in the evening we muse and dream and take our ease, we see our friends, we unstring the bow, we indulge our social instincts.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
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 Henry James
"Now I pray thee to unstring it again," handing it to the bowman.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If I had, I might ha' whistled for another, for my father wasn't quite so ready to unstring as some other fathers I know of.
From Silas Marner by George Eliot
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
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
"Maybe it's too early yet for the unstringing to begin!"
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
The remembered fact brought with it a degradation of mind and body—a complete unstringing of the moral fibres, which made even revenge seem an impossible output of energy.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
By the time Gilgamesh sets out in search of immortality, he is already unstrung.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Mr. Fitzsimons, a recreational trapper, was also carrying a six-foot-long unstrung archery bow and a fur pelt draped across his neck.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
He can be seen hurling his unstrung bow into the tunnel, striking the helmet of D.C.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
Upon the quiet daughter of Ikarios she let clear drops of slumber fall, until the queen lay back asleep, her limbs unstrung, in her long chair.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
