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How to use untie in a sentence

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Having a permanently fixed loop on a rope-end removes the need to tie and then untie a knot each time you wish to use it.
He sighed and walked to his grand grey steed and began to untie his valiant beast of burden.
I have a piece of purple webbing knotted in a loop that I untie and wrap around my forearm.
Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
The air was thick with the smell of the ocean, sailors beginning to untie their ships for mornings of sailing and fishing.
Instead he stooped to untie the young woman as fast as his iron-strong fingers could unknot her.
As soon as it's tied, I untie and unwrap it again, and set it down on the pedestal.
It was the demands of his little granddaughter, insisting he untie a balloon.
She is the largest and nicest doll I have ever had, but I will never undress her or untie the red ribbons under her chin.
By that time, she had more then lost a few straggles of hair from trying to untie the stubborn curls.
For twenty years I lived in a world with no catastrophe theory, no chaotic growth, no knots that wouldn't untie.
I need to plant two hemlocks that are seven feet tall, I was wondering if I should untie the burlap sack or just leave it tied on to decompose.
Their captors also hadn't been decent enough to untie their hands, although the hemp would eventually loosen.
She forms a knot in Guigemar's chemise that only she can untie, and he places a ceinture around her waist that only he can unfasten.
Several families had to untie bikes from the backs of their cars before they could gain access to the boot.
I watched in disgust as he began to untie his cravat and removed it from around his neck.
When conflicts arise, the Kremlin has tended to cut the Gordian knot rather than attempting to untie it.
If we really understood either the physical or mental bases of the patient's aggression or other symptoms, we could untie this Gordian knot.
International co-operation proved totally unable to untie this Gordian knot.
You can easily shove your foot out of the shoe, without having to bend and untie your shoelaces.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This was more than Shang could stand, and he immediately broke the seal, but found that he couldnt untie the knot.
Then slowly he removed his war bonnet, put aside his staff, and began to untie the thongs of his doeskin shirt.
Lance stooped indifferently to untie his slicker and blanket from the saddle.
We hoped he'd make them untie us and he'd pass it to us and tell us to skip.
So long did lox take to untie the knotted hair-string that when he came down it was quite dark.
Shirley would untie the knots or cut the rope or get someone to unloose her.
You could almost untie the knots of those girdles, unplait almost the long braided tresses of those mystic queens.
You have just seen me untie the knot, dissociate the electrons, or what you will.
I got up and tried to untie her, but I was so excited my hands shook so I couldn't hardly do anything with them.
To her mind this complicated tangle of the affairs of life was a Gordian knot impossible to untie and which genius ought to cut.
The master horse ordered a sorrel nag, one of his servants, to untie the largest of these animals, and take him into the yard.
Milady, during the passage had contrived to untie the cord which fastened her feet.
Then do but untie my hands and I will fight thee and thy men with no weapon but only my naked fists.
John hastened to untie the children, who trembled from head to foot.
If we untie you will you fork it over or do you want me to search you?
Tell your men to untie us, and throw the ropes back into the tent.
Will you promise not to do yourself a mischief, if I untie you?
His fingers were trembling and he thought he should never untie the knot.
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we.
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