unfix
Example Sentences
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She was home from boarding school for the summer, and day after day the sun rose into a cloudless sky, from which Jane couldn’t unfix the word “cerulean,” which she’d learned in the art room.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2012
Whereupon the Soudanese caught hold of the bayonet and tried to unfix it.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
The morning Private Mucklewame fixed his bayonet for the first time, two small boys stayed away from school all day in order to see him unfix it when he came off guard in the afternoon.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
What mattered that his single arm could not lift the treasure he had found; what mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!
From Frontier Stories by Harte, Bret
The order was marching by149 fours to fix or unfix bayonets.
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
