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
Closely as our evil is twisted in with the fibres of our character, there is a hand that can untwine the coils, and cast away the sin, and preserve the soul.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
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
“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
“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
I looked at him blinded by tears; then I rose, untwined my arms from around his neck, and left him—I had accepted my destiny.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Julia Kavanagh
"God will bring me safely back to you, dear mother," urged Agnes, gently untwining those loving arms; "Good-by."
From Angel Agnes The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport by Charles Wesley Alexander
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
But his eyes were wide open, feverish, almost glaring; he was twining and untwining his fingers and muttering excitedly.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Philip nodded--a crimson spot in each cheek, his frail hands twining and untwining as he tried to compose himself.
From Lady Merton, Colonist by Mrs. Humphry Ward
