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Example sentences for "unhooked"

Lexicographically close words:
unhonored; unhonoured; unhood; unhooded; unhook; unhooking; unhoped; unhorse; unhorsed; unhorsing
  1. She was not more than half convinced, but unhooked her dress and took a note from her bosom, which she stuck out toward Si, holding tightly on to one end in the meanwhile.

  2. Straight to the pile of ore he came, unhooked the front of the tram, tripped it and piled the contents of the car on top of the dump which already rested there.

  3. Harry unhooked his carbide from his belt, lit it and looked around.

  4. The storeman felt over the cords holding his load, unhooked the brakechain from the wheel, and whistling, he swung up beside them.

  5. She unhooked her vanity bag from the bedpost, rooted in it, shook it, turned it inside out.

  6. Macro unhooked his long legs from the table and made for the door.

  7. He coolly unhooked the door, gently pushed it back, and stepped within the structure.

  8. At the clamouring telephone, finally, he unhooked the receiver: "Hello?

  9. Dulcie returned her amiable smile, unhooked the receiver, and telephoned up.

  10. And after he had disappeared through the corridor into the street she hastily unhooked the transmitter and called Grogan's.

  11. They unhooked the team attached to the sleigh and tied them to the nearest tree, some distance off.

  12. With great rapidity they unhooked the traces and unbuckled the straps around the shafts.

  13. With hands that trembled with eagerness, I unhooked the chains and threw back the massive bolts.

  14. Carefully the man Albeury had cross-questioned unhooked the receiver.

  15. I suppose we had walked ten or twelve yards along the narrow, low-ceilinged, uncarpeted passage, lit only by the candle lantern that our guide had unhooked from a nail in the wall, when he suddenly stopped and bent down.

  16. Whether this flurried the Female Samson or not, or whether she lost her balance entirely on account of having unhooked one leg, I don't know.

  17. She would sit in her underbodice, unhooked of them, sunk softly into herself, her hands stroking her tortured jacket of ribs and her breath flowing deeper.

  18. Five or six miles from camp, they came upon his tenantless wagon, with the oxen unhooked and feeding on the trail near-by.

  19. As a last resort, the men hung the water pails on their arms, unhooked the oxen from the wagons, and by persuasion and force, drove them onward, leaving the women and children to await their return.

  20. When the howitzer is in the boat, the skids are unhooked and put in the boat by Nos.

  21. In moderate weather the train-tackle is unhooked from the deck, and made up and stopped along the side-tackle, on the forward side of the gun.

  22. Jack unhooked his water-proof from a nail behind the door--he had began putting on his rubber boots again before MacFarlane finished speaking.

  23. I had called to two of the English sailors, named Mike Jackson and Thomas Fallows, to get into the boat, when the cask had been placed in her; and when I had entered her the darkeys lowered us; we unhooked and shoved off.

  24. A neater mode is to hook the outer end of the Flemish-horse, so that it may be unhooked and furled in with the sails when in port.

  25. Then he pulled his chair forward, and unhooked the receiver.

  26. With a dramatic gesture he unhooked a cord.

  27. We limbered up and withdrew a little way up the hill, and unhooked again for the night.

  28. Horses were shot down right and left, and a team of eight which had not been unhooked were all hit, together with two of the drivers, who fortunately managed to get safely away.

  29. At seven o'clock we unhooked the horses from the guns and ammunition-waggons and let them graze on the herbage.

  30. As the sled disappeared among the trees, bearing the queerly bundled figure of the Priest, the Boss unhooked his snowshoes from the wall.

  31. My team," he waved an introducing hand at the two great cross-bred sled-dogs that unhooked from their traces had followed him in and now sat gravely on their haunches, staring at the fire.

  32. So saying, he pulled the fox out, and unhooked the chain from the collar.

  33. This dog is chained during the day, but his chain is unhooked at night, so as to leave him at liberty.

  34. And, turning, he unhooked something from the wall.

  35. Next he unhooked the little bridge and put it under his right.

  36. Hearing a woman's light step and catching a glimpse of a woman's skirt as Kate came down the corridor, he removed his cigar and unhooked his heels preparatory to rising.

  37. Teeters glanced at the clock, yawned as he saw that the hands pointed to half past seven, and unhooked his heels from the rung of the chair preparatory to retiring.

  38. It was growing dusk as Cap'n Bill unhooked the seats and Button-Bright folded up the umbrella and tucked it under his arm.

  39. As the Magic Umbrella was now as motionless as any ordinary umbrella might be, Button-Bright first released the catch and closed it up, after which he unhooked the crooked handle from the rope and rose to his feet.

  40. So Cap'n Bill unhooked the seats from the handle of the umbrella and wound the ropes around the two boards and made a package of them, which he carried under his arm.

  41. Jones jumped aft, secured the boat's painter, unhooked the stern rope, and got hold of the helm.


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