untwine
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“To untwine it to one aspect of it diminishes the other, and I don’t want to do that. It’s the totality of it. It’s the gestalt of it.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022
It would be difficult to untwine the system by which we measured much of the past 80 years — but that isn’t really New Zealand’s goal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019
They are two events in his life he will never be able to untwine.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2013
She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
There- fore, Search while thou wilt; and let thy reason go, To ransom truth, e'en to th' abyss below; Rally the scatter'd causes; and that line Which nature twists be able to untwine.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
She untwined herself from the chair and trundled into the kitchen to retrieve a plaque she wanted to show.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
“We’ve been clutching each other like a couple of lost children,” Theodora said and untwined her arms from around Eleanor’s neck.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
“But, Lenina . . .” he began protesting; and as she immediately untwined her arms, as she stepped away from him, he thought, for a moment, that she had taken his unspoken hint.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Cora untwined herself from Ridgeway and crawled toward the hand-car, left leg in agony.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Every cord of my heart that had been untwined or slackened of late wound itself fast round that blessed little one.”
From Nearly Lost but Dearly Won by Theodore P. Wilson
I now thought of my betrothed, and, untwining myself from the lithe and nerveless limbs of the savage, I rose to my feet.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
Jerry stared up, his face working horribly, his fingers twining and untwining.
From The Pirate Shark by Fred J. Arting
"Eli, your overcoat is wet," she exclaimed, untwining her arms from his neck.
From The Little Mixer by Lillian Nicholson Shearon
It was for this reason he had ordered the untwining of the creeper that was clinging above.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
O why should Fate sic pleasure have, Life’s dearest bands untwining?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
