Examples of unbind in a Sentence
She managed to unbind her hands.
a newly elected democratic government whose first act was to unbind the nation's vast horde of political prisoners
Recent Examples on the Web
The blazers who run the major championships have not yet commissioned sculptures of these two women, who so unbound their sport and gave the gift of professional aspiration to so many.
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Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
The stars will be long gone before our galaxy unbinds itself.
—Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
Lazarus had been dead four days, wrapped in a burial shroud and enclosed in a tomb, when Jesus instructed his followers to unbind him from his burial cloths.
—Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
Perhaps, to vanish well entails allowing others to help unbind you, trusting them to keep your secrets.
—Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
Despite becoming the first president ever to receive votes from both parties to convict and remove him from office in an impeachment trial, President Donald Trump today woke up in the White House unbound.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 6 Feb. 2020
His is a generosity unbound by rules, regulations and codes.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
The other frontier unbound by international law is space.
—Melissa K. Chan, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
Its vistas, forests and canyons are branded in the nation’s imagination, an expanse where the soul is unbound across 450 million acres of public lands.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
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Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
The stars will be long gone before our galaxy unbinds itself.
—Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
Lazarus had been dead four days, wrapped in a burial shroud and enclosed in a tomb, when Jesus instructed his followers to unbind him from his burial cloths.
—Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
Perhaps, to vanish well entails allowing others to help unbind you, trusting them to keep your secrets.
—Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
Despite becoming the first president ever to receive votes from both parties to convict and remove him from office in an impeachment trial, President Donald Trump today woke up in the White House unbound.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 6 Feb. 2020
His is a generosity unbound by rules, regulations and codes.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
The other frontier unbound by international law is space.
—Melissa K. Chan, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
Its vistas, forests and canyons are branded in the nation’s imagination, an expanse where the soul is unbound across 450 million acres of public lands.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of unbind was
before the 12th century
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“Unbind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbind. Accessed 23 Sep. 2023.
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