unstrangle

Example Sentences

• "After you are seated and help your wife unstrangle herself out of her cloak and pick up her opera glass bag seven or eight times, and say, "O, my God, can't you hang on to anything?""
• "That might be all right for Shorty, who is short, but, if that long- feared "Pride of Saskatchewan," Brother Sid Neville, ever got tangled up in a knot like that it might require medical aid to unstrangle him."
• "And that's something I can't stand, never getting a second chance; it's like trying to unstrangle somebody or unslap somebody you've slapped, go stuffing kids back into their mothers."
• "get off a bus at the airways terminal, gather your luggage, chase your hat, unstrangle your scarf, and spend only half an hour (if you're lucky) trying to hail a taxi; — try to use, in succession, half a dozen of the city's three hundred or so busted public telephones."
• "Sores and blisters were one introduction to the world of work, and slashing at Clematis to unstrangle whippy shoots of beech, which slapped the face and stung the eyes in defiance, has left little affection for the creeper and a stoical appreciation of this irksome task."
• "Those who are afraid to unstrangle the judge, and allow him to comment on the facts, contribute more than all others to the inefficiency of the jury today."