unstick

Example Sentences

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"We - our team and the United States administration - came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck since almost last August," Kerry told reporters late on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2023

Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

What I can't unstick from my brain is how defiant it is of simple determination.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2023

“We basically have to cause a nuisance until it hurts,” he said as a police officer tried to unstick him from the road with the help of cooking oil.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2022

She finally got the zipper to unstick and pulled it up all the way to close her sleeping bag.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio