unhook
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You have to come to a meeting spot at the border, unhook all your trucks and trailers, bring in another truck to bring it in to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
While trains and trucks also transport EVs, isolating and extinguishing fires is easier as workers can unhook a rail car and a trucker can pull over, said Frazee.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023
When his grandfather caught a fish, he would unhook it and throw it on the ground, and Roy would snatch it up and quickly stuff it, still wriggling, in the bag.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
When doctors said it was time, they signed the necessary paperwork allowing the staff to unhook him from the machines.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2019
She could back the trailer up with the goods in it, unload it at the store, back the car into the yard, unhook the trailer, and park the car in the garage, backing in.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
He reels in the baitfish, unhooks it, rehooks it with the shark hook, and tosses the bobber, leader, and bait back out, before handing the shark rod to me.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2022
Mallory Sarver unhooks one, loosens the drawstring, reaches in and pulls out a tiny bird with a gray head, a brilliant yellow belly with black streaks and white stripes on its black wings.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018
He reels in both lines, unhooks the fish and transfers it to his son’s rig.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2016
The flap is connected with a unique clip that unhooks with a downward squeeze.
From Time ● May 10, 2016
He unhooks a heavy ring of keys from his belt loop, shaking his head.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Getting unhooked from the era of easy money could bring some headaches along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Once he’d parked the buggy, he unhooked the black box from its compartment, tucking this precious cargo underneath his arm.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023
Before the start of a news conference on Wednesday, officials unhooked their masks in quick succession, a staged gesture that deviated from past Covid-19 protocols.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Hawkins said the incident ended peacefully after some four hours as the Iranians unhooked the tow line to the drone and left the area as the American forces were nearby.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
I unhooked him from the gangline and carried him, lunging and screaming, to the sled.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Six months later, pain still radiated from his back into his legs as he ran up and down the floor of a warehouse hooking and unhooking cows from milking machines.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
He argues that endangering the subsidy would be "like unhooking a patient from intensive care".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2021
It’s simply about unhooking your brain from the harmful routines it has adopted around this particular device, and hooking it to better things.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
“I caught some snow all the way from Ohio,” he said, while unhooking a Kia SUV from the trailer bed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
As an army of workers cleared the stage, unhooking power cords, removing instruments and equipment, Armpit and Ginny were unsure of what they were supposed to do or where they were supposed to go.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
