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Example sentences for "uncoupled"

Lexicographically close words:
uncorrupt; uncorrupted; uncountable; uncounted; uncouple; uncoupling; uncourteous; uncourtly; uncouth; uncouthly
  1. Instantly the hounds were uncoupled by the huntsman as he caught sight of the wolf, for seeing that the latter kept its distance, he feared it would get too far ahead if he waited for the others to come up before loosing his dogs.

  2. The observation car and the Santoine car were uncoupled here and the train made up again with the Santoine car as the last car of the train and the observation car ahead of it.

  3. The fugitives, thus finding themselves closely pursued, uncoupled two of the box-cars from the engine, to impede the progress of the pursuers.

  4. Teddy had uncoupled Car Three from the others in their rear, and the cars of his rivals were dropping behind rapidly.

  5. To the hounds when they were uncoupled near to where the stag was supposed to be lying.

  6. The "Master of Game" calls the first lot of hounds uncoupled the "finders" (p.

  7. Then the herthounds were to be uncoupled where the most likely "ligging is for an hert, and seek.

  8. And that is the cause why the other hounds shall be first uncoupled to make the rascal void, for small deer will sooner leave their covert than will a great hart, unless it be a hind that hath her calf in the wood, and hath lately calved.

  9. He often stops and turns to bay, and especially when he is at the brimming and hath a little advantage before the hounds of the first running, and these will never overtake him unless other new hounds be uncoupled to him.

  10. Then we could have uncoupled our car, and, with the arms of our guard, have started across the country towards the Union lines, which could not have been more than thirty or forty miles west of us.

  11. All of our party, whom the heat had not already driven forward, were ordered into the nearly empty tender, and the car was uncoupled in the middle of the bridge.

  12. Andrews slowed up and uncoupled this blazing car on the bridge.

  13. The rear car of the train was uncoupled and left behind, with the hope that the pursuers might unwittingly dash into it and be wrecked.

  14. When this letter was written the poet was skulking from place to place: the merciless pack of the law had been uncoupled at his heels.

  15. I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels.

  16. Now the wireless instruments were quickly uncoupled and stowed away in a bag, and the aerial taken down and loosely rolled around the spreaders so that it could be hoisted in a moment's time.

  17. He took down the aerial, threw away the spreaders, uncoupled the amplifier which he needed for use himself, and replaced the little outfit in the pasteboard box.

  18. He goes on to consider, in the first place: Especial types of uncoupled wheels, the diameters of which form useful samples for our present case.

  19. This time the second car was uncoupled and sent flying back.

  20. Andrews uncoupled the blazing car, and climbed back into the tender.

  21. One of the men uncoupled the passenger cars, so that the stolen train would consist only of the engine, tender, and the three baggage cars.

  22. Fuller and his men jumped out, ran through to the farthest train, uncoupled the engine and one car, in spite of the protests of its crew, filled it with forty armed men and once more started after the flying General.

  23. Right in the middle of the bridge it was uncoupled and left burning fast and furiously.

  24. Uncoupled and with the links tied together, it would not encumber him on the hike.

  25. Upon leaving, she uncoupled joint by joint, as it were, becoming again a person of above the average height.

  26. Then Conductor Tobin pointed out the two stock cars full of cattle that were being uncoupled from the rest of the train, and bade him go with them to the stock-yard.

  27. They had hardly left it in sole charge of the robber, by whom it had already been uncoupled from its train, before it sprang forward and began to move away through the darkness.

  28. The pursuing train was only half a mile behind on the steep upward track when at his order Wang Shih, at the risk of his life, uncoupled the rearmost of the three carriages.

  29. He sprang on to the line, with his own hands uncoupled the engine, signalled for the points to be closed, and ordered the driver to send it ahead at full speed.

  30. Each alphabet is a condensed visual testimony to experiences in the meanwhile uncoupled from language and its concrete practical motivations.

  31. They develop as networks of interaction with an autonomous dynamics, uncoupled from the dynamics of political life, even from the new pragmatic context.

  32. Perry, with the utmost coolness, a coolness which in the circumstances was nothing less than heroism, uncoupled his engine, and leaving the trucks to their fate, steamed back to the town.

  33. After nearly an hour's hard work and harder fighting, the line was clear enough for the engine to go forward, but the waggons behind had to be uncoupled and left.

  34. At the moment of the discharge of the pistol the uncoupled engine started forward, away from the train, with a hissing of steam.

  35. The engineer had taken his uncoupled engine some distance up the track, but had returned when sent for, and now the train, twenty additional minutes late, was crawling up the steep grade.

  36. He blew the whistle as a signal that the last car was to be uncoupled and left where it was, for he had just noticed a man standing near the track, swinging his bicycle lamp high above his head.

  37. But the sound of the explosion of some of the boxes of cartridges in the uncoupled car made it fairly certain that there wouldn't be much left to unload.

  38. Then the long train was pushed back to Adairsville, where Fuller changed the switch, uncoupled the train from the engine, and pushed in upon the side track.

  39. It had never been uncoupled from the "General" since Fuller left Atlanta with it that morning.


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