unstrung
IPA: ʌnstrʌŋ
adjective
- Not strung.
- (informal) Emotionally upset; not able to keep it together.
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Examples of "unstrung" in Sentences
- I mean, it's no wonder she was so unstrung.
- It seems that an unstrung recurve bow will maintain its shape.
- The unstrung bow represents peace yet instant preparedness for defense.
- A bow which, while unstrung curved forwards, was under an initial tension.
- A recurve bow has tips that curve away from the archer when the bow is unstrung.
- Above, power lines hang, their criss-crossed cables dangling like an unstrung bow.
- Montague's sword unstrung the arm that upheld it, and the next instant the pastor was surrounded by friends.
- But I apply the term unstrung to a man when he is rather under the pressure of feelings than under the pressure of conceptions.
- But not alone at this did they laugh, for at the moment of the snap and the turning over, Captain Duncan's unstrung nerves had exploded, causing him to jump as he tensed his whole body.
- She wouldn't jump up and screech every time the door slams if she'd been as used to noises as Ma is, and this talk about her nerves bein 'all unstrung is just plain silly – and as for her not sleepin' at nights, she sleeps as sound as any of us.
- What was this hymn which now the tenors sang, and what was the answer that came from all the voices so close to me, the words in Latin unstrung and only incoherently enveloping me: "Lord, I am come into the Valley of Death; Lord, I am come to the end of my Sorrow; Lord, in thy deliverance I give life to those who would be idle in Hell were it not for thy divine plan."
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