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
The peasants unloosen Their waistbelts, and gather Around the white napkin 420 To hold a great banquet.
From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Juliet M. Soskice
Hugh left them to unloosen her clothing and hastened out upon the veranda whereon the assassin must have stood when firing the shot.
From Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by William Le Queux
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 Hulbert Footner
They fished them out later from their slimy couch, and found that they had clasped one another so tightly in their mortal agony that it was deemed impious ever to unloosen that embrace.
From Alone by Norman Douglas
