unbolted
Example Sentences
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Last April, as part of the city’s reconstruction of Victor Steinbrueck Park, the poles were unbolted from their plinths and delivered to Discovery Park, where they have rested side by side, unprotected from the elements.
From Seattle Times
I unbolted doors, installed floating shelves and glued patches of octopus wallpaper for subtle humor.
From New York Times
Arrays of Russian sensors to sniff, scour and study the planet’s environment may have to be unbolted and replaced and a non-Russian launcher rocket found if the suspension of their collaboration becomes a lasting rupture.
From Seattle Times
The metal poles appeared to have been either unbolted or felled using a hacksaw.
From New York Times
Mr Tompkinson claimed he and his family had suffered a catalogue of "extremely poor and negligent" workmanship and botched repairs - including unbolted banisters, sinking bathroom floors, micro-cracks, subsidence and missing brickwork.
From BBC
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