unsheathe
verb (used with object)
to draw from a sheath, as a sword, knife, or the like.
are unsheathing
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present progressiveof unsheathe.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It was but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the Constitutions under which we now live, and now we are unsheathing our swords to overturn them.
From The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution by James M. (James Montgomery) Beck
Washington exclaimed: "It was but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we live, and now we are unsheathing our swords to overturn them."
From America First Patriotic Readings by Jasper Leonidas McBrien
