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

Gather those broad leaves, and all the rest, growing under the brushwood; unbrace his armour.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Edwin, sunk in weariness, said little in opposition; and having suffered Monteith to take away his sword and to unbrace his plated vest, dropped at once on the straw in a profound sleep.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

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

But wasting years, that wither human race, Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander