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

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

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Terms of a Carver: Slice brawn, spoil a hen, unbrace a mallard, untache a curlew, border a pasty, thigh small birds, splat a pike, fin a chub, barb a lobster.

From Early English Meals and Manners by Furnivall, Frederick James

And to unbrace the bandages of state Is as clear air to incense-stifled souls.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas