He is mightily tempted to disparage their power, and condemn them by faint praise; or, if he praise, to add one biting comment which undoes the generosity and frankness of the eulogium.
He bends again and undoes the buttons of Stephen's waistcoat) To breathe.
He undoes the noose) Rope which hanged the awful rebel.
Never needs the Art stand still, But those Art leans on lag, and none like you, Her strongest of supports, whose step aside Undoes the march: defection checks advance Too late adventured!
But no good supplants a good, Nor beauty undoes beauty.
Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the {52} right.
It undoes in a moment all that we have accomplished in a long while.
One boy, one woman, one old man in the country constitute the present strength of the House of Ulysses; but craft meets violence and undoes it, as always.
The deed done to Helen strikes every Greek man till he undoes it.
He undoes a man with the same privilege as a doctor kills him, and is paid as well for it as if he preserved him, in which he is very impartial, but in nothing else.
He loses his friend in a fit of quarrelling, and in a fit of kindness undoes himself; and then curses the occasion drew this mischief upon him, and cries God mercy for it, and curses again.
One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.
Then he goes to the tent, undoes a hook, and again stands gazing over the sea; then turns round, and resumes his walk as before.
Again the man on the watch arrests his steps; he undoes another hook in the tent.
Every lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up--a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
That undoes itself with time, like a spring uncoiling.
Oh, thatundoes the effect of all the other charms.
One stroke of a thread ferrying needle undoes a stitch.
One potent stroke of a drug carrying needle undoes a life.
After about ten days the magician comes and undoes the spell by muttering charms and breathing on her and on the more valuable of the things with which she has come in contact.
In the island of Saghalien, when a woman is in labour, her husband undoes everything that can be undone.
Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
War is the greatest of dysgenic forces, and undoes the effect of a hundred eugenic laws.
It is necessary above all things never to lose a battle; every gain on the wrong side undoes the effects of many conquests on the right.
Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of yarn that is being wound; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
This influenceundoes at many points the beneficent effects of free competition and causes grave hardships to particular workers while affording no compensating gain to the consuming public.
In this, its final stage, the organizing tendency brings a whole subgroup into union, and undoes much of the good it accomplished in its earlier stage, when it was perfecting the individual establishments within the subgroup.
Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up: a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
He undoesby his orders the good he does as a general.
I have said that General Halleck is reputed an able officer; but, most perversely, he undoes with one hand what he does with the other.
Our Lord said to me: It undoes itself utterly, My daughter, in order that it may give itself more and more to Me: it is not itself that then lives, it is I.
It undoes itself in the praises of God, and I would gladly undo myself now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
