unbutton
IPA: ʌnbˈʌtʌn
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened.
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Examples of "unbutton" in Sentences
- He wears his school uniform unbuttoned and loose.
- Check here if you'd like me to unbutton your blouse.
- But there's the unbuttoned shirt and the gold chain bit.
- A few of the ladies wore day dresses, untied and unbuttoned.
- He's wearing an unbuttoned blue and pink shirt over a t shirt.
- Having your work uniform on while it is unbuttoned showing a bra.
- The jumpers can be sleeveless, long sleeved, buttoned or unbuttoned.
- Easiest choice is a casual shirt worn underneath but then unbuttoned.
- He wears a simple miiltary jacket, unbuttoned, with a star on the collar.
- In the middle, Mick Avory wears an unbuttoned leather vest and white pants.
- Wear them to work, or roll up the sleeves, unbutton a few buttons and party down.
- Dr. Casanova needs only to unbutton a few more to look completely trustworthy and credible.
- She moved her hand to her bodice and began to unbutton her fabulously unstylish Mary Astor-style dress.
- I was often invited to events or pool parties where I opted not to go because I felt too embarrassed to even unbutton my shirt.
- In the last couple of years, even before the underwear bomber, the searches have always involved a demand that I unbutton my pants.
- Every time I button and unbutton the front pocket for no reason, I think of that woman with the ectopic pregnancy scare, and forgive her for the male pattern baldness she may have advanced on my scalp.
- The last straw for me came when I was ushered into a plexiglas cell in full view of the terminal, given an intimate frisk, then told to unbutton the pants, and had the guard stick his hand right down to the genitals.
- Mr. Perry was approximately 15 feet away when Mr. Flanagan ordered Ms. Allen, then 14 years old, to lift her bra and unbutton her pants as he searched her for marijuana, according to a police investigation of the incident and a transcript of Mr. Flanagan's guilty plea.
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