Example Sentences

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Like unstitching a blanket, or unbaking a cake: you can choose your own simile, but the inference is clear.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2017

As it was with the Knicks and the oft-injured Reed, Portland’s eventual sorrow and unstitching began at center, where Walton’s congenitally fragile feet short-circuited a second run the next season and perhaps a dynastic era.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2014

Mantel is unstitching history – reimagining events as provisional, undecided.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012

Europe needs a strategy for shoring up banks before unstitching a July accord to cut Greek bond values by an average of 21 percent, Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme said.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 10, 2011

I endeavored to conceal it by unstitching the front of the shirt I am wearing, and sewing it up between the folds.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen