unbar
verb (used with object)
to remove a bar or bars from; open; unlock; unbolt.
unbars
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present tense formof unbar (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The book’s final moments are breathless, if suspiciously flimsy—it isn’t until the very last sentence that Monk unbars “the great gate” and is freed.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2017
Will the sun forget to streak Eastern skies with amber ray, When the dusky shades to break He unbars the gates of day?
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
My lady waits!—'Tis now the hour When morn unbars her gates!—
From Poems by George Pope Morris
Soon as to Ilion's topmost tower they come, And awful reach the high Palladian dome, Antenor's consort, fair Theano, waits As Pallas' priestess, and unbars the gates.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
For as a gate of sorrow-land unbars The region of unfaltering delight, So may you gather from the fields of night That harvest of diviner thought, the stars.
From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Henry Baerlein
