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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 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
Presently they saw a sailor sliding down the rope to unfix the anchor.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature?
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
"There's only one thing to unfix the things I've stuck together," he said.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
If the federal government were the only entity who could file these claims, then every small hotel chain with a broken ramp might go unfixed.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
About 2.6 million, or around 22%, of affected vehicles remain unfixed, according to an analysis of the latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
The incident was not serious but if left unfixed could have been "pretty dangerous", an aviation expert said.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
If left unfixed, it could have severely affected Euclid’s science mission and led to gaps in its map of the Universe.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Looking sullen, he sat beside me in the snow, awaiting the arrival of Lopsang, and the ropes were left unfixed.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Most brokerage houses, while technically unfixing their rates, still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
By this time some fifty officers and blue-jackets were about the roof and ledge, some discussing, others unfixing lanterns and festoons, with shouted directions.
From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Bosher, Kate Langley
Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony
A few moments were suffered to elapse: and then, unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
