unbrace

Example Sentences

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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2020

He said, and turn'd his brother's vengeful mind; He stoop'd to reason, and his rage resign'd, No longer bent to rush on certain harms; His joyful friends unbrace his azure arms.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

What rules has he proposed totally to unbrace the slackened nerve; to shade the heavy eye of inattention; to give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle; or procure insensibility to the whole animal composition?

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel

Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly, Flame thro’ the vast of air, and reach the sky. l ’Twas Neptune’s charge his coursers to unbrace, And fix the car on its immortal base, &c.

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace

King Solomon, where ere he lay, Did nere unbrace a kinder; O! why should Ginnee gang away, And I be left behind her?

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various