unbar
Example Sentences
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Claudius has made himself a monarch again, standing at the head of a shrieking horde of desperate peasantry who believe he can unbar the door to that heavenly place.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
"It is I, Pierre," cried he; "come down and unbar the door!"
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
Teach me the path to that uncharted land; Discovery's keel hath never notched its strand, No passport may unbar its sealed frontier,— Too far for utmost sight, for touch too near.
From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
You practical English!—will you ever unbar the shutters of your brains, and hang a picture or two in those state-chambers?
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John
It takes only a minute to cross the hall and unbar the front doors.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
