unmaking

Example Sentences

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Whether she will be his making or unmaking is an open question.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Bess entered the room and immediately started unmaking the bed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022

There you go: the breaking, making and then unmaking of the world in under two minutes.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2021

The unmaking of a Beatle: George Harrison’s widow and son on the legacy of ‘All Things Must Pass’

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2021

She was not alive and she knew it, but...whatever her new state might lack, it was infinitely preferable to the unmaking that had almost devoured her.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor