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
I myself often tremble for my life—art as a profession is so likely to unstring one's nerves.
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
The scene is one to strike dumb with awe, or to unstring the nerves; one might stand in silent astonishment, another would burst into tears.
From Our Italy by Charles Dudley Warner
Peggy was not, as we know, a nervous girl, but the situation was enough to unstring the nerves of the most stolid of beings.
From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham
That such emotion could so unstring Louis Arnold was a marvel.
From Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf
The good old priest, in the center of an attentive circle, is unstringing a few observations.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
Uncle says that after you have been at work very hard it’s like unstringing the bow; and so it is.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Tim Reardon, unstringing two of the pickerel from the rope, transferred them to a twig of alder that he cut from a near by bush, and handed them to her.
From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith
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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
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 can be seen hurling his unstrung bow into the tunnel, striking the helmet of D.C.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 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
But before they unstrung their bows they used to observe a ceremony.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
