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Example sentences for "unhitch"

Lexicographically close words:
unhindered; unhinge; unhinged; unhistoric; unhistorical; unhitched; unhitching; unholiness; unholy; unhomely
  1. I'll be along, soon as I unhitch and feed the mare.

  2. Susan, from the window, dully watched the young farmer unhitch the mare and lead her up in front of the gate.

  3. Frenzied fingers unhitch the poor frozen brute and drag it from the water.

  4. Sometimes twice in one day we had to unhitch the ox and pull him out.

  5. I could unhitch at the edge of the sidewalk in the shade of the trees, and you'd have a reserved seat through it all.

  6. They had descended from the buggy, and Henley was about to unhitch the traces when Wrinkle laid a firm, even agitated, hand on his arm.

  7. Penny and Louise offered little comment as they helped Mrs. Lear unhitch Trinidad.

  8. Mrs. Lear leaped lightly to the barn floor and began to unhitch the horse.

  9. If there's going to be any trouble I want to be there," was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn.

  10. Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.

  11. He helped his grandmother lead the horses into a weedy enclosure, and there unhitch them from the carriage.

  12. Don't folks ever unhitch other folks' horses to put 'em in their stable?

  13. A few weeks after Arthur's arrival, Mrs. Motherwell called him from the barn, where he sat industriously mending bags, to unhitch her horse from the buggy.

  14. He tried to unhitch the horse, but the beating of his heart nearly choked him--the fear of what might be in the granary.

  15. But no man could drive her, and when I drove to church I was forced to hitch and unhitch her myself.

  16. On one occasion a man I greatly disliked, and who I had reason to know disliked me, insisted that he could unhitch her, and started to do so, notwithstanding my protests and explanations.

  17. The mule drivers could do nothing with them, and in a minute or two the whole of them were all snarled up, and the men were obliged to unhitch them from the wagons and lead them away.

  18. As soon as you get it up here, unhitch the line, and throw the end down to General.

  19. Unhitch your team and have some dinner and we'll talk things over after you're rested.

  20. I'd gladly give him my title of Captain if I could unhitch it someway.

  21. I shall have to unhitch them, tie one of them to that stump, and ride off on the other for help," said Kate.

  22. Unhitch your horse and put him in the third stall in the stable.

  23. Come, rout out there, or I'll unhitch a strap somewhere and make you step lively.

  24. Why, unhitch the animal, and make it on horseback.

  25. Frank became interested in watching them unhitch the horse from the wagon.

  26. He would then quietly unhitch himself and thrash Abe within an inch of his life for being so careless as to allow a horse to run away with him.

  27. He helped the sullen fellow unhitch the fallen horse, lift him to his feet and readjust the harness.

  28. The only way sometimes to get waggons out is to unhitch the horses, getting them on to firm ground, and by means of a long chain or ropes fastened to the poles, pull the waggons out which as a rule have previously had to be unloaded.

  29. Arrived before the house, Franke quickly disappeared in the direction of his home, leaving Felipe to unhitch and unharness alone.

  30. All he saw was that Felipe was drunk and asleep, and that before dropping beside the trail he had had time, and perhaps just enough wit, to unhitch one horse.

  31. He found them there yet, and it was but the work of a moment to shoulder the one and unhitch the other, who greeted him with a whinny of recognition, and lead him out to the gate.

  32. He had been told repeatedly to get the pack on right, and not to unhitch his horse until he did it, or the bronco would knock him and his burden into the middle of next week and come home, leaving him to follow after as best he could.

  33. At the end of the next day I reached a miners' cabin where he had spent the night, and the man who had helped him unhitch told me he had had to remind him to feed his dogs.

  34. The wicket will take the team singly," she answered, "but we must unhitch and leave the buggy here.

  35. Before she could begin to fight the fire she had to unhitch Pucker from the wagon and tie him so that he could not stampede.

  36. Dicky, there is a gentleman out in the barn trying to unhitch that black horse which Bill Humphries drives over here sometimes.

  37. Bertha nodded in complete understanding, and then she offered to unhitch the horses for him while he went in to talk to Grace.

  38. If Tom goes to Pentland Broads to-morrow, I will go out gleaning with the children,” Bertha said to herself, as she drove in at the open gate of the paddock and proceeded to unhitch old Pucker.

  39. Dat's de last we seed ob him;" and Abram went stolidly on to unhitch and care for his horses.

  40. Another citizen was riding homeward, when the solid and strongly embanked road was swept away before and behind him, and he had barely time to unhitch his horse and escape, leaving his carriage islanded between the chasms.

  41. The valet conducted me to the room assigned to me, and carried my orders to my coachman to unhitch the horses, and send up my necessaries.

  42. Some of 'em don't even stop to unhitch their teams.

  43. Anyhow, you can unhitch and help me get that buffalo inside this tent, out of sight.

  44. The station-agent's assistant bustled to unhitch the mules and put in fresh ones.

  45. After we pulled on to Coonrod's yard Snyder told me to unhitch and feed, but leave the harness on.

  46. In this conjuncture the party in charge of the leaders undertook to unhitch them, and to guard against the movements of Luman, wrapped a driving rein tightly around one of his arms.

  47. Si and Shorty roused up the stupid teamsters to unhitch the mules and get them behind the wagon to pull it back.

  48. Si and Shorty waded around to unhitch the struggling mules, and then, taking poles in hand to steady themselves, took their stations in the stream where they could head the mules right.

  49. Harnessed and hitched, but soon received orders to unhitch and get fodder enough to feed all day.

  50. Horses balky and unused to work, had to unhitch one and returned with but little drill.


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