unstring
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That alone would’ve been enough for me to unstring my racquets and call it a career.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 21, 2011
If I had, I might ha' whistled for another, for my father wasn't quite so ready to unstring as some other fathers I know of.
From Silas Marner by Eliot, George
Mr. Snobbe requests all persons having nerves to be unstrung to unstring them now.
From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick
"Co-Tan," he said, "unstring your bow—these are my friends, and yours."
From Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
An earnest, fluent talker, who could unstring his bow and throw a charm even over ordinary topics.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
The remembered fact brought with it a degradation of mind and body—a complete unstringing of the moral fibres, which made even revenge seem an impossible output of energy.
From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
There was something horrible, unnatural in the silence, and I felt fear run down my back like ice, unstringing my muscles, sucking my heart.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
The archers, flushed and merry, were unstringing their bows once more, for in spite of the water glue the damp air took the strength from the cords.
From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The good old priest, in the center of an attentive circle, is unstringing a few observations.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
His liveliest sallies, his bitterest jests, were all reserved for these occasions, so that mirth or anger was forever unstringing the nerves of his competitors, and diminishing their chance of gain.
From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James
By the time Gilgamesh sets out in search of immortality, he is already unstrung.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
He also said he carried an unstrung archery bow “to signify his peaceful intent.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
A whole row of unstrung bows in varying stages of repair or build rested on a worktable, and hundreds of bushels of arrows were stacked into pyramids on the floor beside them.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
