unstring
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That alone would’ve been enough for me to unstring my racquets and call it a career.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 21, 2011
The very monotony of that dull measured walk was enough to unstring the nerves of a child, coming as it did in the middle of the night.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
Mrs. Bowen broke out again with a sort of violence; the years teach us something of self-control, perhaps, but they weaken and unstring the nerves.
From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
"Co-Tan," he said, "unstring your bow—these are my friends, and yours."
From Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I resolutely put aside the thought of Juanita—of any personal feeling which might mar my judgment and unstring my nerves at this supreme and dreadful moment.
From The City in the Clouds by C. Ranger Gull
Uncle says that after you have been at work very hard it’s like unstringing the bow; and so it is.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
The good old priest, in the center of an attentive circle, is unstringing a few observations.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
"Maybe it's too early yet for the unstringing to begin!"
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
Your nerves are on the rack, and will be the better for unstringing.
From Recalled to Life by Grant Allen
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
By the time Gilgamesh sets out in search of immortality, he is already unstrung.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
We’ll leave our gloves, with their humble histories, just as they are, somewhat unstrung by time and use, like us.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
She unstrung the bow and picked up the arrows she had dropped.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
