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

After a short bus ride, the group boarded a naval vessel in the Bay of Bengal, which Mr Noor said they only realised later once their hands had been untied and their faces uncovered.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 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

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

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023

He rattled around in the house and kept trying to walk out through the windows and glass doors, so we let him outside and kept his food dish full and left him untied.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen