Example Sentences

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Conversely, humanities lag at Rochester, and Board Chairman Wilson has personally unhanded $1,000,000 for improvement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The program's sponsor, Charles Revson, president of Revlon Products Corp., had more than the occasion to be choked up about as he unhanded the Big Check.

From Time Magazine Archive

She never wants to be "unhanded" or "let to pass."

From Stage-Land by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

"Had enough, Jacob?" he asked just as gently as he had unhanded himself from me.

From The Heart's Kingdom by Daviess, Maria Thompson

They must have understood my motive—or perhaps they felt that I was not worth the trouble of taking alive—for immediately I stopped struggling they unhanded me and rose to their feet.

From The Fire People by Cummings, Ray