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
What mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!
From On the Frontier by Harte, Bret
She said nothing until he had got up and tried to unfix the ladder without success.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
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
Nothing can be more implacable than their resentment––no time can allay it––no change of circumstances unfix its purpose.
From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
