untwine
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“To untwine it to one aspect of it diminishes the other, and I don’t want to do that. It’s the totality of it. It’s the gestalt of it.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022
It would be difficult to untwine the system by which we measured much of the past 80 years — but that isn’t really New Zealand’s goal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019
They are two events in his life he will never be able to untwine.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2013
She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Fantine had long evaded Tholomyes in the mazes of the hill of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in such a way as constantly to encounter him again.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
She untwined herself from the chair and trundled into the kitchen to retrieve a plaque she wanted to show.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
“We’ve been clutching each other like a couple of lost children,” Theodora said and untwined her arms from around Eleanor’s neck.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
“But, Lenina . . .” he began protesting; and as she immediately untwined her arms, as she stepped away from him, he thought, for a moment, that she had taken his unspoken hint.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Cora untwined herself from Ridgeway and crawled toward the hand-car, left leg in agony.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
It could only be untwined by Krzycki, and even he stood not only in the presence of new difficulties but, as it were, in the presence of a new person.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
I now thought of my betrothed, and, untwining myself from the lithe and nerveless limbs of the savage, I rose to my feet.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
I do not ask to see The unveiling of Thy purpose, or the shining Of future light on mysteries untwining; Thy promise-roll is all my own— Thy word is enough for me.
From Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work by Dwight Lyman Moody
Jerry stared up, his face working horribly, his fingers twining and untwining.
From The Pirate Shark by Fred J. Arting
In truth, it was surprising to see how many disagreeable sentiments they all three contrived to express, without untwining their arms, or loosening their fond and graceful hold on each other.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
But his eyes were wide open, feverish, almost glaring; he was twining and untwining his fingers and muttering excitedly.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
