Example Sentences

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Kondo brought garments to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024

He must have disembarked in Cold Lake, where they had stopped so briefly that Vaughn hadn’t even bothered unfastening her seat belt.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2022

Fastidiously spend a couple of minutes unfastening all the straps before you can sit down?

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2019

“Help me! I am here,” Mr. Capello replied, unfastening his seatbelt, and climbing over the seats, through the smashed rear window.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018

People were unfastening my bindings and collecting my ski poles from where they poked skyward, askew, in their separate snowbanks.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath