unstrung
Example Sentences
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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
The luminous Billie Piper plays Her, a successful journalist unstrung by infertility.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2018
The passages were clogged with troops: armored knights in woolen surcoats and fur cloaks, men-at-arms with spears across their shoulders, archers carrying unstrung bows and sheaves of arrows, freeriders, grooms leading warhorses.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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