unbuckle

We had to unbuckle the icebox from the bracket to access the clean-out port.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Mr Nelson said he was able to unbuckle himself push himself to the ground.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025

Faye said she took off her mask so her seatmate could hear her and said “on the count of three I’m going to unbuckle him. We’re going to pull him out.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

After crossing in complete silence, he turned and told me to unbuckle the straps on my pack and follow exactly in his footsteps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

I unbuckle my seat belt, Libby climbs out of the car, and I squeeze past her through the open door.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

He unbuckles his seat belt and slides out of the car when he says, “A lot of my friends are dying.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2017

For instance, autopilot mode is designed to first issue a series of warnings, and ultimately slow the car to a stop if the driver unbuckles his seat belt or gets out of his seat.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2015

Poulin unbuckles this Germanic syntax and pares away words that obscure the image: Our heart survives between hammers, just as the tongue between the teeth is still able to praise.

From Time Magazine Archive

He unbuckles his seat belt and moves toward me.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

She pulls the body over and unbuckles him from the harness.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

But transportation officials say the midair blowout could have been calamitous if it had happened a little later in the flight, when the plane was at cruising altitude with passengers unbuckled and walking around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

He unbuckled his seat belt and we both bolted from the smoking, flaming Kia, looking over our shoulders, movie-star style, to see the inevitable fireball we narrowly escaped.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023

I suspect your neighbors wouldn’t leave their children unbuckled if they knew it was illegal, or if their attention had been drawn to the benefits of buckling.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

Buckle Up: Studies show that unbuckled passengers in the back seat can put the driver at greater risk of injury in a crash.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

The attendants unbuckled the straps that held the patient in place, and lifted her into the hospital bed.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Footage shows passengers on Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight unbuckling their seatbelts and floating around, experiencing zero-gravity.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023

A recent YouTube series, “Best Shape of My Life,” that ostensibly targeted his non-superhero dad bod was really about unbuckling his own strictures of behavior.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022

These insects can generate exceptionally loud sounds by rapidly buckling and unbuckling drumlike structures on their bodies called tymbals.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2022

Romo’s incident followed Max Scherzer’s spectacle, finding himself unbuckling his belt in the middle of an inning before an umpire felt the Washington Nationals ace’s sweaty hair for any foreign substances.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

“They do,” she said, unbuckling her seat belt.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green