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Example sentences for "unclasping"

Lexicographically close words:
unckle; unclad; unclaimed; unclasp; unclasped; unclassed; unclassical; unclassified; uncle; unclean
  1. His subordinate swayed to and fro, clasping and unclasping his hands behind his back, and regarded me with an expression of almost benevolence.

  2. Beulah taught me common sense," answered Cornelia, unclasping a bracelet and tossing a handful of jewelry across the room to her dressing table.

  3. Unclasping her arms, he led the way to the dining room.

  4. Immediately the rest took up the mocking cries, to the evident distress of poor Wun Sing, who stood in the background, his face yellower than common and his hands clasping and unclasping nervously.

  5. That ambitious young person was looking very white about the lips, and was clasping and unclasping her hands in evident distress.

  6. Unclasping her darling's arms and gently laying them down, she silently signalled to Mrs. Ford and almost as silently left the room.

  7. She could only stand, clasping and unclasping her hands, and gazing with dim eyes at this wonderful possession.

  8. As if she saw a vision the others could not she stood clasping and unclasping her hands, and utterly sick at heart for the loss of her early friend.

  9. Her words rang in a little pause; she was clasping and unclasping her hands nervously, she turned her pure eager face to Mr. Wedderburn.

  10. She was trembling; passionately clasping and unclasping her hands; he came toward her; she clutched at the reins of her horse and leaped into the saddle.

  11. How now," cried the king, unclasping his arms from the slight, beautiful form round which they were thrown.

  12. Unclasping the gold chain from his neck, he threw it over the Norman's head.

  13. She was gazing at Thorhild and nervously clasping and unclasping her hands.

  14. Eileen is brought to a halt in front of the table where she stands, her face working with nervous strain, clasping and unclasping her trembling hands.

  15. Then she lies back in a state of great nervous excitement, twisting her head with eager, fearful glances towards the door, listening, clasping and unclasping her thin fingers on the white spread.

  16. Then Alick beckoned the station master to him from the door of the left-luggage office, where he stood nervously clasping and unclasping his hands.

  17. He stretched his arms wide, clasping and unclasping his fingers.

  18. The marshal, pausing for nothing, flung himself bodily down the steep bank, unclasping his belt, as he half ran, half rolled to the bottom.

  19. He sighed, clasping and unclasping his hands, yet with eyes steadily fixed upon Cavendish, who had sunk back into his chair.

  20. She lay upon the couch dry-eyed, clasping and unclasping her hands.

  21. When Mornay had finished, he sat silent a moment, clasping and unclasping his knotted, bony fingers.

  22. But now at the gate of the garden we stand, And the moment has come for unclasping the hand; Will you drop it like lead, and in silence retreat Like the twenty crushed forms from an omnibus seat?

  23. Come with the stream whose silver-braided rills Fling their unclasping bracelets from the hills, Till in one gleam, beneath the forest's wings, Melts the white glitter of a hundred springs.

  24. Unclasping his arms and stepping back, he looked down at himself.

  25. Bob, unclasping his hands and holding them out.

  26. Polly meanwhile had been looking after the stately old woman, and clasping and unclasping her hands nervously.

  27. Little David, who up to this time, clasping and unclasping his hands nervously, had said nothing, now looked up into the cross face.

  28. Her hands were sinewy and contorted and she kept fidgeting, clasping and unclasping my makeup purse, and rearranging a stray curl that kept obscuring her view.

  29. As soon as Pao-yĆ¼ heard this remark, he at once burst out in a fit of his raving complaint, and unclasping the gem, he dashed it disdainfully on the floor.

  30. She stood there, clasping and unclasping her hands, looking up at the black stairs, listening for some sound from above, fancying a ghost in every darkening corner of the place.

  31. She stood, clasping and unclasping her hands, going to the table, moving the plates, then moving them back again.

  32. And so she knelt there, clasping and unclasping her hands, in a whirl of delight and trembling; all the bounds of that sober inner life seemed for the moment swept away; she almost began to despise its old coldnesses and limitations.

  33. She stood uneasily moving from one foot to another, clasping and unclasping her hands.

  34. But his form at first seemed calm; and the only movement perceptible through his whole frame was the clasping and the unclasping of his left hand upon the hilt of his massy sword.

  35. Take her, oh take her from me," she added, unclasping the arms of Eudochia, who clung round her knees weeping.

  36. When the two men went up to Hinch she seated herself at the far side of the room, still clasping and unclasping her hands.

  37. The wife ceased her nervous clasping and unclasping of her hands and knelt beside her own chair.

  38. Both overwhelmed with emotion, longing to give one another some proofs of the sincerity of our reconciliation and of the ardent fire which was consuming us, we rose without unclasping our arms, and falling (a most amorous group!

  39. They walk out of the ring when told to go to church (two children in the ring unclasping hands to let them walk out, and again clasping hands after they return), and kiss each other and shake hands when the two next verses are sung.

  40. Henry, all nerves, was clasping and unclasping his hands.

  41. He's rich,' thought Henry, twisting in his chair, clasping and unclasping his hands.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unclasping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.