Example Sentences

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If you’re reusing parts, the only tricky details are to slip the nuts onto the unthreaded sections first, then add the washers, so the beveled edge faces the pipe section that has the threads.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

They said the separation of this critical component occurred when a clamp nut that should have been fixed in place by a circular wire lock ring unthreaded and rotated.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022

“If the sewing machine messes up or comes unthreaded, I just want to ask Mom for help.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2020

Left unthreaded, my eyebrows would look exactly like Hadjipanteli’s and I would sport a thick moustache and coarse, black chin hair to rival the adolescent attempts at a beard of many a friend’s boyfriend.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2018

Grandfather unthreaded his watch chain to remove a tiny key.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly