How To Use Unpick In A Sentence

  • Therefore I reasoned, the longer I left it before I started sewing, the longer it would be before I was squinting well into the night unpicking it.
  • Penelope-like, she both weaves a narrative and contextual account of Lippi's life and work and unpicks her handiwork, creatively frustrating the reader's expectation of biographical closure.
  • A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year's reform of Europe's common agricultural policy.
  • There are fears that the president might unpick the treaty.
  • You would unpick the sides of your jeans and as soon as you sewed the material into it and put them on, you just thought you were gorgeous.
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  • And then I got almost to the end of the block and realised I had cut a large, central piece from within the bloody selvedge and will need to unpick the whole thing and start over. Olympics
  • Shy, plump, wearing a hand-knitted blue angora bolero, slaved over by my mother unpicked more than once to get it just right for the big occasion.
  • Their result is a handsome parade-place, -- a pretty stone toy, -- an unpickable lock to an inclosure nobody wants to enter, -- a navy-yard for the creation of an armament which has no commerce to protect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
  • The good news is that the web can help you to unpick the lock to this vault of knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather. The Hills of Hingham
  • There were tales of unsold wines, people losing their wineries, and vines in the central valley left unpicked or being grubbed up for other crops.
  • It's not exactly the toughest metaphor in the world to unpick.
  • A detailed analysis of The Prince would be needed in order to unpick the ambivalent feelings Machiavelli had towards Cesare.
  • They decided to secure the banner for the night and then return to unpick it in the morning and attempt to pull it further up the building.
  • The good news is that the web can help you to unpick the lock to this vault of knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
  • You could try to unpick all the false assumptions in that last sentence, but frankly, its not worth it.
  • Yes it is a mess, and the guidelines tried to unpick some of those issues.
  • Reading the Sangsters' book, which unpicks every last aspect of downshifting, the process itself appears to be as full of trials and tribulations as the daily grind of city life.
  • In particular, the ES&S scanner lock was easily picked with a paper clip during our tests, while the "unpickable" lock on the Sequoia scanner was bypassed by removing a few screws and pulling out the lock cylinder from the scanner's chassis by hand. 'Fatally Flawed' Systems Await Voters: 'Drastic Change Needed'
  • But as the quartet strive to unpick the mystery, they put their own lives at risk. The Sun
  • And a provocative exhibition tries to unpick the myth about the world's most famous apeman.
  • Michael Porter, focusing on large businesses, argues that waste generating firms do not readily identify all possible opportunities for reducing wastes at low cost - some low hanging fruit are left unpicked.
  • To get closer to a definition of terrorism we need to unpick its political logic.
  • The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween.
  • The mythology of this anarchic, antiestablishment swell of thought is hard to unpick. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of course, you need to know beforehand that it fits, because you don't want to have to unpick all this stitching to alter it later.
  • Alice Miles in the Times has a stab at unpicking this.
  • A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year's reform of Europe's common agricultural policy.
  • ( "Abigail, insensible to these strands that Serge's ear's unpicking, coughs on the Melkonian he offers her and, waving smoke from her eyes, complains.") The Fear of a Failure to Communicate
  • The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.
  • My Auntie at one point unpicked and re-tied a section of it because she had the wrong shade of pink.
  • Barrie was his own mythologist: he loved making up stories about himself, and her book is an attempt to unpick the truth.
  • When she sat down at her sewing machine, she made me sit on the floor on a cushion and gave me work to do: unpick this, learn how to overstitch a hem, chores that bored me silly. Surviving With Wolves
  • Turn the skirt to the right side and unpick the seam using an unpicking tool of sharp pointed scissors.
  • I found it useful to use the removed strap to increase leverage on the ‘loop’ side when unpicking it.
  • We have other good improvements in the bill relating to controls on sales to overseas people, which will go a long way to achieving a similar outcome, but it is very important that the underlying principle here be unpicked a little.
  • A guardian, when you had signed your name again, unlocked three unpickable, incombustible, and gunpowder-proof locks in a massive steel door, and you were admitted, assuming always that the hour was between nine and six. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
  • Like the unpickable lock, strongly encrypted communications might seem like a nightmare for the security services. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her hands were shaking as she unpicked the blood-caked bandages and gently peeled them back. THE WHITE DOVE
  • He went unpicked in the 2002 NBA Draft after averaging 9.0 points and 6.5 boards as a senior during the 2001-02 season.
  • Carefully unpicking the myth that has grown up around these games, Dougan illuminates an horrific period in Ukrainian history without succumbing to sensation.
  • I did have one minor hiccough where the tension decided to go do-lally for no particular reason (i.e. wasn't at a bobbin change, etc) but I did catch it before I'd sewed too much, and of course, when the tension goes odd, it's often easy to unpick as one of the threads is just lying there with big loops around it ... One Hawaiian Down...
  • Linda Woolley unpicks some of these strands, and holds them up to view.
  • Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
  • He smiled as he recalled Chris's first words on returning from his interrupted visit to his family - ‘I'm gone for one day, and the threads of the universe start unpicking behind me.’
  • Shemitah means to drop; it refers to the practice of letting fruit, vegetables, and stalks fall to the ground, unpicked and unutilized by people.
  • Unpick the errant stitching and reposition the rolled hem under the presser foot.
  • Now we have a beast of a different kind. Google Translate is a statistical machine translation system, which means that it doesn't try to unpick or understand anything.
  • Detergent-dispensing washing machines, leak-resistant faucets and unpickable locks are generating buzz. The Can-Do Home Show
  • However, on a significant number of plants in a field the fruits may be particularly tenacious and these plants go unpicked as workers move on to plants with more easily detached fruits.
  • I didn't want to unpick the past.
  • To change the length of a hem, you will first need to unpick the old stitches and press the fabric flat to remove the old creases. Times, Sunday Times
  • I unpicked the sleeve and started again.
  • The fireworks may awaken the increasingly jaded viewer from his slumbers but invariably fail to unpick a single assumption.
  • In the time I have here I will unpick each one of them.
  • Corporate access to transport, education and, above all, health service provision was seen as the great unpicked cherry - an arena that offered potentially vast and hitherto untapped profits.
  • She has written her autobiography, Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother, which unpicks her marriage.
  • The more cerebral cinemagoer, however, is left in a conundrum as he or she tries to unpick the film's slapdash symbolism and script.
  • It's got lots of little holes in it where I've unpicked all my swimming badges. READY?
  • Isle of Wight Council leader Cllr David Pugh told the meeting he had been "daunted" by the responsibility of overseeing the masterplan to unpick the three-tier system, of which he was a product, but he believed the council had consulted fully and responded to public concern. Latest Isle of Wight News
  • In the process of unpicking his feelings about the issue, he has extrapolated a model of the relationship between created work and selfhood.
  • All this would be riveting, except that the plot of "Gethsemane" -- in which the web of political corruption is unpicked by an equally reprehensible journalist who seems to have had sex with the Home Minister's under-age daughter -- doesn't really stand up. How Europe Inspired Disney's Wonderful World
  • Surrounded by suitors who were after the absent master's wealth and the absent master's bed, she fobs them off by saying she must finish her weaving before making her mind up - and cannily unpicks it each night.
  • I didn't want to unpick the past.
  • Then noblemen's chimneys used to smoke, and not their noses; Englishmen without were not Blackamoores within, for then Tobacco was an Indian, unpickt and unpiped, -- now made the common ivy-bush of luxury, the curtaine of dishonesty, the proclaimer of vanity, the drunken colourer of Drabby solacy. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
  • Raised in a Catholic family of regular churchgoers, Hilgenbrinck played soccer at Clemson and hooked on with the Chilean first division after he went unpicked in the 2004 MLS draft.
  • I've tried to unpick what the strange and fantastic phenomenon of Morrissey might represent psychologically, musically, sexually, and culturally.
  • This zippy production, starring Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes, unpicks all the tangled threads pretty well.
  • A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year's reform of Europe's common agricultural policy.
  • I spent hours at school making the cross-stitch ‘peg bag’ that everyone had to make only to stand up at the end of the lesson to find I'd attached it to my skirt and had to unpick it all.
  • It's obvious that being interviewed is proving quite distracting so I offer to unpick it for her while she talks.
  • From Woodstock to freeganism, Colbert leaves no stone unturned, or more appropriately, flower left unpicked. Colbert On Tree-Hugging Hippies (VIDEO)
  • A ranch owner watches his unpicked crop shrivel in the heat and people of color are besieged by the question of the day: Are you Mexican?
  • It soaked through both sides of the wrap, so do you think it would work if I unpicked the two pieces and resewed the wrap using an untreated piece of fabric for the outer - bearing in mind that it's stiff, so I wonder if pulling it right-side-out again after sewing might be difficult? Towards Sustainability
  • Start unpicking the elbows from those sweaters.
  • Unpicking plain knitting is dead easy, of course, but the k2togs and (worse) the k3togs tend to stick together. Archive 2009-05-01
  • The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.
  • There were threads unpicked, all sorts of embarrassments and delays... and now they were digging up the road outside! THE LAST RAVEN
  • As long as two years ago, Mandelson tried to unpick the reasons for the disaster.
  • This has formed an ethnic patchwork quilt that is more diverse than America and also makes it harder to unpick so as to identify winners and losers. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was the scent of warming jasmine and ripe figs, hanging unpicked on the trees.
  • Powers's Greek Slave, Hobbs's unpickable lock, Hoe's wonderful printing presses, and Bond's more wonderful spring governor, --- it began to be suspected that Brother Jonathan was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been thought. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
  • Perhaps surprisingly, Clyde Roberson, the technical director at Medeco High Security Locks (which are praised by lock aficionados as being virtually unpickable), tends to agree with Schneier. Beware the 'Bump' Key
  • She seemed to know the pace at which to proceed the unpicking and reassembling that is our culture's particular road to wellness.
  • So last night I reunpicked these messes and resewed the hexagons as they once were. The Knitting Olympics
  • Together they unpick a web of deceit and dark magic. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not like he'd paid Lowe's for some fancy unpickable lock or anything. Homebody
  • Refusing to ratify is no longer an option: the only way to unpick this will be by way either of complete renegotiation or of entering into a derogation of the Treaty. Some Euro Gobbets
  • There is just the unpicked coffee on the mountainside and there are goats and the dogs and now the darkness.
  • He unpicks, scene by scene, the absurd, long-forgotten propagandist works of both sides.
  • This is void happiness, grey comfort missing love, where angels sit or lie, head in hands, where science kills the rainbow and unpicks the beauty of the Universe; it is ours for all time, ours to break and ours to kill.
  • It is not the only way to unpick a deep defence but it is the most tried and tested. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is not the only way to unpick a deep defence but it is the most tried and tested. Times, Sunday Times
  • After Weise went unpicked for a second straight time in the NHL Entry Draft, the 6-foot-2, 206-pound forward had an epiphany.
  • Unpicked coffee beans are now spreading the Broca disease, which threatens to destroy next year's already diminished crop.
  • As long as two years ago, Mandelson tried to unpick the reasons for the disaster.
  • It would take a lifetime to unpick all of the critical readings that he offers in Orientalism.
  • Thousands lived and died without ever unpicking the unique dilemmas that that fratricidal conflict created.
  • The main sources are provided by extant accounts of papal ceremonial, particularly those relating to enthronement and funeral, and Paravicini-Bagliani unpicks their intriguing ritual detail to great effect.
  • His head was hanging on by only a thread now and the stitching of his mouth had come unpicked as well, giving him a lopsided sneer. THE EXECUTION
  • But as the quartet strive to unpick the mystery, they put their own lives at risk. The Sun
  • Though just as the Mozart film unpicked the myths perpetrated by "Amadeus" -- Mozart did not die a pauper and was not poisoned by Salieri or anyone else -- we discover that Beethoven was not the unkempt, unhygienic, tormented figure of romantic tradition, struggling, unloved and alone, against his tragic deafness. Debunking the Beethoven Myth
  • Together they unpick a web of deceit and dark magic. Times, Sunday Times
  • We cannot expect a child to analyse branding promotions or to unpick nutritional messages from advertising.
  • After unpicking the strap and removing M, I, C and H thinking they might come in useful some time, I was left with O, S, N and O, which I fiddled around with a bit before settling on SNOO, which somehow appealed to me.
  • I am sorry, you are going to have to really unpick this because you have wrapped up in one step what seemed to me to be about four.
  • These lockers are fitted with one unpickable dual lock master key system. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • Enthusiastic hackers unpicked the code and used it to write versions of their own.
  • Hobbs's unpickable lock, Hoe's wonderful printing presses, and Bond's more wonderful spring governor, --- it began to be suspected that Brother Jonathan was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been thought. Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
  • Yellow is the percussion of light beneath clouds heavy as persecution, the sweetness running from waxy cells, the body honeyed with softness when pain's gold embroidery is unpicked.
  • Now, having unpicked and screwed up several times (I'm on the second hand now), I am beginning to realise why I don't knit more often.
  • This kind of safety lockers are fitted with one or two unpickable dual controlled mechanical locks or electronic locks. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • Holmes has unpicked escapologist crimes with Harry Houdini and refined some of his psychological deductions with the help of Sigmund Freud. The Game Is Always Afoot
  • The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween.

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