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
The fair one, all tearful and dishevelled, unbolts it, and ushers in the minister, who comes followed by the girl's parents and two witnesses, who are in the plot.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
Friedrich cautiously rises; dresses; takes his money, his new red roquelaure, unbolts the Barn-door, and walks out.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle
Arrays of Russian sensors to sniff, scour and study the planet’s environment may have to be unbolted and replaced and a non-Russian launcher rocket found if the suspension of their collaboration becomes a lasting rupture.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
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 tigers got loose when a shutter of their cage was left unbolted," Prince-Cox explained.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
No one was stirring down-stairs, so I unbolted the door and went out.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I crawled into the garret, descended through the darkened house, and, unbolting the door, went out and down across the grass to the orchard.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Scott, with Faiz Ullah and two policemen, was already busy on the carts, backing them up to the truck and unbolting the sideboards quietly, while the others pitched in the bags of millet and wheat.
From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
"There's no harm in opening it now," replied his companion, casting off the lashings and unbolting the heavy iron slide.
From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Someone whom I could not see was evidently unbolting and unlocking the principal entrance to the inn.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
