untied

Example Sentences

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His growing eccentricity, which included untied shoelaces and hair that spiked out in all directions, completed the stock image of a distracted scientist.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

She and Melissa take it out, and then they realize they have to put it back in so he doesn't know that they're untied.

From Salon • May 1, 2025

Under the glare of fluorescent lights in her lab she slowly untied it, piece by piece, to expose the fabric for the first time in more than three decades.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

She’d left her long dark hair untied and painted her nails bright red.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Her dress-cloth untied and fell into the murky water sloshing around her feet, but she couldn’t take the time to retrieve it.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer