unstring

Example Sentences

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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

We meet only an embarrassment of choice when we start to unstring the chaplet of our carking cares.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise

The very monotony of that dull measured walk was enough to unstring the nerves of a child, coming as it did in the middle of the night.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

Meantime, as if fearful that the continuance of the scene might too much unstring his master, the servant seemed anxious to terminate it.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

Away then to loosen, to unstring the divine bow, so tense, so long.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt