unclasped

He unclasped his watch and held it up for her.

Several of my cousins entered and I watched as they unclasped the lids of sundry spreads, all chattering away in a language I didn’t share.

“My stomach turned, I unclasped my hands and my gaze plunged to the floor,” Murphy writes.

As her song, “Come on Children Everywhere” ended and campers of different backgrounds unclasped their hands from one another, she exhorted the unified bunch to “hold hands just a little longer.”

Finally, the other side of this country feels as though the hand that has covered its mouth has been unclasped.