untwine

Example Sentences

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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

Now another has caught them up, and the chord of my life is being twisted, and I cannot wrench it free and untwine it again—I can't.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)