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
This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady-mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Miss Fanny in the Foreground.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That, plucking to unfix an enemy, He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
The order was marching by fours to fix or unfix bayonets.
From The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children 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
