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Example sentences for "untied"

Lexicographically close words:
unthrifty; untidily; untidiness; untidy; untie; unties; until; untill; untilled; untimely
  1. The lower jaw of an old Frenchman with a thick mustache trembled as he untied the ropes.

  2. But Dolokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair.

  3. The viceroy, touched with compassion, went up to her without speaking and untied the cord that bound the hands of the Moorish girl.

  4. But when she heard the next morning that, before going to the country, Frau Schurstab would attend the christening of her youngest grandson, and spend the whole day with the daughter who was the little boy's mother, she untied it.

  5. Then he untied him and drew him before the Colonel.

  6. Their hands were untied while they ate, but the meal over, they were bound again.

  7. Slone untied his lasso and coiled the noose.

  8. Creech, watching Lucy all the while, reached for the rope, pulled the King closer and closer, and untied the knot.

  9. Lucy knew she was safe when she untied the lasso from the strong root where she had fastened it, and led the stallion down the wash to a pool of water.

  10. She undid one by one all the talismans and spells which she found, broke the seals, burned the images, and untied the hagknots.

  11. This misfortune was entirely owing to the foolish curiosity of his shipmates, who, while Ulysses lay asleep, had untied some very bulky leathern bags, in which they supposed a valuable treasure to be concealed.

  12. Uncle Will, cheerily, as he untied Roly's pack.

  13. Knots were untied with nervous haste, and where they proved refractory they were cut.

  14. When he heard us coming he opened the gate, went to the rack, untied the Princess' horse and led it beside the mounting block.

  15. She untied the strings and pushed the prettiest striped bag from a lovely pink bandbox and took out a dear little gray bonnet with white ribbons, and the yellow bead fringe, and a bunch of white roses with a few green leaves.

  16. He shot back answers as fast as they could ask questions, while he cut the branch and untied the horse.

  17. His fingers trembled from curiosity as he untied the rope.

  18. In the morning he had returned to the reindeer and, having untied him, had driven away.

  19. They untied the man’s hands, and stood back while he unloosed his ankles and drew the sodden boots on.

  20. They untied the bundle, which had come safely ashore, and pulled their dripping coats on.

  21. Tom had seized the broken pick when they had untied the thief as though resolved to sell his life dearly.

  22. This is more convenient than the usual kid-leather covers, that must be untied and tied again whenever the bottles are opened.

  23. Then place upon it the broccoli; the largest and finest head in the middle, the lesser ones round it; and having untied the small sprigs, lay them, in a circle close to the edge.

  24. In the gray light which came through one of the windows, she untied this parcel and found the candles.

  25. She ran down the steps, untied the cable, and in a moment was sweeping down the little stream, pulling her oars like an Indian girl.

  26. If only he could get those untied hands upon that demoniac Turk!

  27. The general cautioned him to silence while Yussuf knelt and untied the strip that bound his feet, then, his arms still bound, he was ordered to march on before them.

  28. Kindergartens were hardly in George Brotherton's line; yet he untied old bundles of papers, ransacked his shop and brought a great heap of old posters and picture papers to her.

  29. She untied old Mrs. Wiggins's pumpkin hood, and got her cap out of her cap basket and put it on for her.

  30. It was I who commanded the party; and when with his own hands he untied them, and took their place, although they did all that they could to dissuade him; but he was inflexible.

  31. They untied my hands; but the cord is here, ready for me, and the other horror is below, waiting for me.

  32. So the turtles, prince and all, were left disporting themselves in the tub, and the trio went down to the pond, where Ernest untied his boat.

  33. He disappeared for a moment into the house and came back with a flat package which Jewel watched with curious eyes while he untied the string.

  34. At last his left hand slipped free, then his right, and with shaking fingers he untied the knots that had held his legs fast.

  35. He untied the ropes that bound Chuck's hands and, gun in hand, squatted on the other side of the lean-to while Chuck wolfed the food.

  36. At last, as the sun was sinking low in the west, they left the wood, untied old Betsy, who was patiently waiting for them, and jogged along homeward.

  37. Marjorie eagerly untied the wrappings of her father's gift, and found a little snapshot camera.

  38. She wore no bonnet or hat, and the untied shoes evidently were an old pair belonging to her husband.

  39. Chester quickly fixed the lights, sprang from the taffrail to shore, untied the loop of rope, flung it on deck and leaped after it.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adrift; afloat; clear; emancipated; floating; free; freed; liberated; loose; redeemed; released; rickety; shaky; unbound; undone; unfixed; unmuzzled; untied