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Example sentences for "unpinned"

Lexicographically close words:
unpick; unpicking; unpicturesque; unpierced; unpigmented; unpitied; unpitying; unplaned; unplastered; unpleasant
  1. A curious little sound escaped her lips; she raised both slender hands and unpinned her hat.

  2. Slowly she unpinned her orchid and threw it among the elegant debris of the table.

  3. Mrs. Brewster unpinned her skirt and smoothed it down; and smiled at Pinky, all unconscious that she looked like a plump, pink Sister of Mercy with that towel bound tightly about her hair.

  4. With a swift movement Pinky unpinned the towel, unwound it, dabbed with it tenderly at her mother's chin and brow, rolled it into a vicious wad, and hurled it through the open doorway.

  5. Pete laboriously unpinned a waistcoat-pocket and produced an envelope which he handed to Code.

  6. He unpinned the pocket of his waistcoat and drew forth the flimsy sheet of paper that he had picked up when Templeton had mistakenly tried to serve him.

  7. She sat down, untied her bonnet and threw it off, and unpinned her shawl.

  8. With a world of sympathy in her touch she unpinned Alexandra's hat.

  9. She unpinned it and tossed it on to a chair.

  10. I had much ado to get Lady Patience combed or unpinned at all!

  11. It was for this same reason that, as I have said, I unpinned from my screen those two facsimiles of drawings, feeling rather a brute while I was doing so.

  12. Then, suddenly, she whisked off her blue apron and unpinned the dragon's tail.

  13. Good Madame Chalumeau climbed down from her chair with a generous display of fat, black woollen legs and unpinned her skirt.

  14. She washed her face with warm water and soap, and unpinned her elaborate curls.

  15. So she unpinned it again and decided in favour of a simple, unaffected coiffure.

  16. Let me go down and see what they are doing," and Mary Cary laid gloves and parasol on the chair, unpinned her hat and put it beside them.

  17. Mark unpinned this object and held it near the light.

  18. But one afternoon, on coming in, she unpinned her hat and threw it on the piano, with a decisive haste that was characteristic of her in anger.

  19. She unpinned her hat, and shook back her hair; and Madeleine helped her to take off her jacket, talking all the time.

  20. She went back and closed the door; and then, sitting down on his knee, unpinned her big hat, and threw it and the roses on the bed.

  21. The girl flung stole and muff from her, rolled up her gloves and took a shot at the piano, then, laughing, unpinned her hat and sent it scaling away into the golden dusk somewhere.

  22. She unpinned her hat and flung it on the piano.

  23. Ilse unpinned her hat, made a vigorous toilet, then lighted a cigarette and sauntered into the living room where the telephone was ringing persistently.

  24. Did you notice who unpinned the sheet for Mrs. St. Clair?

  25. The girl who unpinned the sheet was Mary Price," she replied, "and since you are determined to question me, I will tell you.

  26. Daisy stepped inside, deliberately unpinned and hung up her hat, and sat down opposite to the baronet at the table he had chosen along the side of the room.

  27. She unpinned my linen collar and unhooked my dress, while I sat wonder struck, saying nothing until I felt the fleecy blue silk being thrown over my shoulders, when I essayed to articulate something.

  28. Maud unpinned her sister's flowers with trembling fingers as Jeanie sat up, clasping her hands.

  29. Van Dusen unpinned the note, opened it, and read aloud.

  30. Illustration: Van Dusen unpinned the note, opened it, and read aloud.


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