unlash

Example Sentences

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Almost at a stand-still at last, balanced on a streamer of flame, he toppled into hot dust Feebly he worked to unlash himself from the tube.

From Comet's Burial by Gallun, Raymond Z.

At last three Spaniards are left in the rigging; they seem nearly dead, and scarcely able to unlash themselves, and crawl down the shrouds.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick

We were forced to unlash all the strips running from side to side and insert supports, made of smaller bones, across the middle each way.

From Under the Andes by Stout, Rex

The men's guns were lashed on the komatik, and both were, therefore, unarmed, and before they could reach the komatik and unlash the rifles the wolves had fled over the hill and out of range.

From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon

"Off with the luggage then, driver," said the policeman—"here hand the small trunk, and now away and unlash there behind."

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman