How To Use Unstrung In A Sentence
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…The bone tasted of nothing and smelled of nothing, A scalded toothless harp, uncrushed, unstrung.
Robert Pinsky's Poetry Strikes a Chord
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I made a quick sketch and the next day unstrung the beads.
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Brock just rolled his shoulders and unstrung his bow, coiled the string and tucked between the oiled sheets of paper that usually held it, and tucked that into a pouch on his belt.
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But not alone at this did they laugh, for at the moment of the snap and the turning over, Captain Duncan's unstrung nerves had exploded, causing him to jump as he tensed his whole body.
CHAPTER VI
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I should have sung for you, but with my lyre unstrung epithalamia were not on hand.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She unstrung her bow and placed it in the quiver.
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The bow was unstrung and secured to the tree, next to a large misshapen sack.
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She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
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Montague's sword unstrung the arm that upheld it, and the next instant the pastor was surrounded by friends.
Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
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Then she unstrung her bow deaf to the crowds' wild cheers.
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Movements by leaders and fighters during and after the air strikes indicated the militia was unstrung by the attack, he said.
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Here are a violin, violoncello, horn, and cornopean; there an old Welsh harp and unstrung guitar.
Gladys, the Reaper
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As secular identity becomes enervated, incoherent, and perplexed, as we grow tired and unstrung by self-doubt, hating them offers odd comfort.
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He leaned almost on the neck of the mare, which, as I knew, must close the wound; and the light of his eyes was quite different, and the pain of his forehead unstrung itself, as if he felt the undulous readiness of her volatile paces under him.
Lorna Doone
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He unstrung his bow and propped it in the corner keeping it strung too long ruined bow and string alike set down his blanketroll and saddlebags beside the wash-stand and threw his cloak across them.
The Dragon Reborn
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The irresistibility of the healing touch unstrung her so completely that she began to cry.
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Only later, as my empirical knowledge of the world grew and I learned that transmogrification is exceptionally rare, did I conclude this was a product of my unstrung toddler-imagination.
Look, Ma! I'm a Squirrel!
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But I apply the term unstrung to a man when he is rather under the pressure of feelings than under the pressure of conceptions.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XVII.
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On the wall adjacent to the targets, hung unstrung bows of every kind - longbows, short bows, recurves and compounds, even a crossbow - and beside them hung quivers full of arrows.
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I cautioned calmly as I unstrung my bow, coiling the string.
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He saw his arrow hit its mark and calmly unstrung his bow before replacing it in his quiver.
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He shook his brown hair out of his eyes as he unstrung his longbow.
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Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung.
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She wouldn't jump up and screech every time the door slams if she'd been as used to noises as Ma is, and this talk about her nerves bein 'all unstrung is just plain silly – and as for her not sleepin' at nights, she sleeps as sound as any of us.
The Second Chance
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She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
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Above, power lines hang, their criss-crossed cables dangling like an unstrung bow.
Some Will Leave
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He nodded in agreement, his bow unstrung and resting on his back.
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While sternwards whirled unstrungpale beads of foam,
Morning at Sea in the Tropics
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Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung, locked by the screen's grid into something like a checkerboard, if checkerboards wore jewelry.
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the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort
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On the wall adjacent to the targets, hung unstrung bows of every kind - longbows, short bows, recurves and compounds, even a crossbow - and beside them hung quivers full of arrows.
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He unstrung his bow, which he always strung up to be ready in case of an attack.
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What was this hymn which now the tenors sang, and what was the answer that came from all the voices so close to me, the words in Latin unstrung and only incoherently enveloping me: "Lord, I am come into the Valley of Death; Lord, I am come to the end of my Sorrow; Lord, in thy deliverance I give life to those who would be idle in Hell were it not for thy divine plan.
Vittorio, The Vampire
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The effect of this speech, as the orator, pale, exhausted, shattered, unstrung, with nerves like the torn cordage of a ship that has outridden the tempest, descended from the tribune, baffles all description.
Edmond Dantès
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Leaning on the wall were two more guitars, one of which was unstrung and appeared to be wet with paint, judging by the paintbrushes lying on the floor next to it and the brighter-than-normal shine.