unloosen

Example Sentences

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"We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work."

From Time Magazine Archive

They may hasten a little the advent of that current, they may a little intensify its effect, but they have not the power to either unloosen it or stop it.

From The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 by Kahn, Otto Hermann

Satisfied that the dark object was a reality and not an unwonted visitation, the lookout began deliberately to unloosen a gasket.

From A Man and His Money by Isham, Frederic Stewart

By tongue and deed he strove to unloosen the passions of hell to his own profit!

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert

She began to unloosen from her hood her jewel, which was a rose fashioned out of pink shell work set with huge dewdrops of diamonds and crowned with a little crown of gold.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox