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Example sentences for "unlacing"

Lexicographically close words:
unknowne; unknowns; unknownst; unlace; unlaced; unlade; unladed; unladen; unlading; unladylike
  1. They were unlacing their blouses as they clattered up the back stairs, and pulling them over their heads in the upper hall.

  2. She commenced unlacing her blouse with one hand, while she pushed her guests to the door with the other.

  3. Then, when the bells sounded for evensong, the knights rested again a while, unlacing their helms to breathe the evening air.

  4. But Sir Gawain would not be turned from his purpose, and unlacing the vanquished knight's helmet, was about to cut off his head, when a lady rushed out from the castle and flung herself on the body of the fallen knight.

  5. Then he would have worked his evil will upon his brother too, but that, even as he was unlacing Sir Bors' helm to cut off his head, there rode up the good knight Sir Colgrevance, a fellow of the Round Table.

  6. Besides taking a practical view of the matter, how are they in any sudden emergency, and with their limited crews, to undo the elaborate lacing, without going out on the yard and climbing down the sail, unlacing as they go?

  7. A servant, who looked up incuriously, was unlacing her shoes.

  8. Hilda sat still for some time after the servant had finished unlacing her shoes.

  9. Du Meresq threw the coals on the waning embers, which responded with a cheerful fizz to the needed aliment, and then began unlacing Cecil's wet boots as she sat before the fire.

  10. I was just going to begin when I was unlacing your boots, but the idea struck me that to propose holding a lady's foot instead of her hand, would be too ludicrous a variation from all precedent.

  11. He went on unlacing his boots in silence; but he felt his face burn white with anger.

  12. She sat slowly unlacing her shoes, and he too commenced to undress.

  13. He was stooping unlacing his shoes, pushing them off with the foot.

  14. They were all thrown into confusion by Luscinda's fainting, and as her mother was unlacing her to give her air a sealed paper was discovered in her bosom which Don Fernando seized at once and began to read by the light of one of the torches.

  15. Then, when the bells sounded for evensong, the knights rested again, unlacing their helms to breathe the evening air.

  16. Not far off there was a little stream, and the conqueror went to it and filled his helmet; and returning, prepared for the pious office by unlacing his adversary's helmet.

  17. The conqueror dismounted instantly, and unlacing the man's helmet, enabled the king to hear his dying confession, which he had hardly finished, when life forsook him.

  18. She rang the bell, bustled out of the room, called for tea at the staircase, came back, pulled out Madam Gadow's ungainly hassock and began unlacing his boot.

  19. The unlacing was suspended and there were reciprocal endearments.

  20. Nimbly the shadows of my fingers play unlacing over shoes and flowers.

  21. A Mohammedan servant, who looked up incuriously, was unlacing her shoes.


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