unstrung
Example Sentences
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Across the country, Sokolow and students like him are looking beyond this fall — and beyond the academic year — to a changing and uncertain future for the performing arts, an industry unstrung by social distancing.
From Washington Post
Upon the possibility of hope one always tastes the possibility of sorrow: the violin looked like my cliched concept of a refugee, silent, unstrung.
From The Guardian
Some of us will pick up this book already knowing that Moore, unstrung by a spiraling career and drinking problems, would commit suicide after attempting to kill his wife on July 18, 1989.
From Washington Post
“They had two arrows each, unstrung, until they got closer. I hollered, ‘My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you.’
From New York Times
Outwardly cool when she can manage to be, Marie lives a life of inward terror on the border between high-strung and unstrung; she’s a figure of anguishing contradictions and exemplary courage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
