Example Sentences

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Your eyes follow him, his leather sandals unslung at the rear, their straps flapping free, his chapped heels callused, crustacean-like.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2012

The thousand paintings were unslung from the museum walls.

From Time Magazine Archive

The young man passing in the street stopped for a moment to listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder.

From Time Magazine Archive

With an equal flourish Cock Sparrow Max unslung his service fountain pen and laid it beside the pistol.

From Time Magazine Archive

George unslung his bindle and dropped it gently on the bank.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck