unbolt
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After collecting their tools and making their way to the right-side exterior truss, the astronauts had just 35 minutes to unbolt the failed unit and install the replacement.
From Reuters ● Oct. 15, 2014
“What if I found a way to unbolt the metal screens and crawl through the fan ducts into your cell, would you let me do it?”
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2014
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service could not cut the spike as it was too thick, opting instead to unbolt it.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2014
Grissom, White and Chaffee tried — briefly — to unbolt the hatch, but they were quickly overcome.
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2011
She dared not try to unbolt the great front door but instead tiptoed cautiously through the cold company room into the back chamber and let herself out the shed door into the garden.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
The monk woman unbolts a door, barely big enough for a medium-sized Labrador, and I stoop through.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2017
Some love seats and sofas are built with a frame system that unbolts easily once the dust cover on the bottom is removed, while others are a lot trickier to take apart.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2016
At the door he stops, collects himself, and quietly unbolts the door.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
No. 6 unbolts trail-wheel, and ships handspike in its socket of trail.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
Enter Arethusa, L., with candle; she lights another; and passes to door, R., which she unbolts.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 ● Dec. 23, 2023
For example, a converted 1991 Porsche can be unbolted and retuned back to its original state.
From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2021
The impact unbolted a large crystal chandelier above the ambassador’s desk that missed his head by inches.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
The crew removed the pay phone and unbolted the booth from the sidewalk, then lifted a replacement booth, slightly larger and sleeker in design, from a truck.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2016
Tayo unbolted the door and opened it; he watched the rainwater pour out the rain gutter over the side of the long porch.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
The keeper however could not be satisfied, and in less than five minutes I heard my door unbolting.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
He therefore commenced proceedings by putting his arm over the half-door of the bar, coolly unbolting it, and leisurely walking in.
From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
Thence unbolting a door, we were enabled to reach the roof of the chancel; this was composed of lead, and was quite flat, with a high stone coping all round it.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.
Nevertheless he did not resign his project, and he determined to accustom Nanette to a frequent unbolting of the door, in hopes that, grown careless, she might some time forget to bolt it again.
From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph
