Example Sentences

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Although in the strictest sense she has written both novels and memoirs, her books unstitch our sense of genre, leaving us with threads and messy seams rather than tidy garments.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

“Typically, the physical and the biological worlds are stitched together outside, and it’s really difficult to unstitch them, understand the dynamics and stitch them back together,” Adams says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 6, 2019

“A poet — as distinct from other, perhaps more persuasive, kinds of writers — can only unstitch the weave of tangled threads. Poems are meant to complicate our sense of things, not pamper them.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2018

Watford had stirred in between, their second-half urgency finally delivering some rhythm to their attacking play for all that it had taken a set-piece to unstitch Palace’s ascendancy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2016

Beneath this representation was printed the following: You may break, but never unstitch it.

From The Quest by Goldberg, Isaac