How to Use unbolt in a Sentence

unbolt

verb

• Audio from the footage recorded what sounded like a cordless drill unbolting the equipment.
  — Joan Murray, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
• Over several weeks, crews physically unbolted and hauled out heavy machinery, dragging thousands of tons of steel out the door.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2026
• Police are searching for a straphanger suspected of unbolting a door switch from a inside a downtown C train Monday evening, snipping the wires and then absconding with the train part, sources tell the Daily News.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
• Sources tell the News that Monday’s incident — in which the switch was unbolted from the train and cut out of the wiring harness by a male youth — effectively disabled the door circuits aboard that subway car, leaving the conductor unable to close the doors.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
• Once outside, Menon and Kutryk worked on unbolting the ISS roll-out solar array (iROSA) from a temporary stowage platform.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026
• Upon further investigation, the conductor reported to NYC Transit’s Rail Control Center that the model-R211 train car’s onboard surveillance camera monitor in the rear control cab had been unbolted and removed from the train car.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026