unloosen

Example Sentences

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"We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work."

From Time Magazine Archive

They may hasten a little the advent of that current, they may a little intensify its effect, but they have not the power to either unloosen it or stop it.

From The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion Remarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exchange Brokers, Held at the Astor Hotel, New York, January 24, 1917 by Kahn, Otto Hermann

The other merely grunted, and began to unloosen the cover.

From The Strange Case of Cavendish by Parrish, Randall

Marise put out her hand for the market-bag and spoke with the peremptory decision that was always necessary to unloosen Biron from his temperamental tangles.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

By tongue and deed he strove to unloosen the passions of hell to his own profit!

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert