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

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

Mr. Snobbe requests all persons having nerves to be unstrung to unstring them now.

From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick

We do in fact as we grow older unstring the critical bow a little and strike a truce with invidious comparisons.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry

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