Sentence examples for try to untie from inspiring English sources

Brombert's language is very plain, and when she comes up against a knot in Svevo's prose she does not try to untie it.

Don't put yourself in danger to try to untie a horse.

The knot, always lumpy, tried to untie itself or ride up to my chin.

So long as the tell-all fashion lasts, other biographers will go on trying to untie the knot.

The novel, in which a woman tries to untie her family's tangled past as she brings her brother's body home to be buried in Ireland, has won glowing praise, as Ms. Enright's books generally do.

In The First Stone, which examines a sexual harassment case at a Melbourne University college, Garner learns that a dashed-off letter of support for the accused foreclosed any possibility of accessing the complainants, shutting down critical avenues for reporting – a knot she spends much of the book trying to untie.

They tried to untie them.

Trying to untie the sudden knot in my stomach and remain calm, I asked her what this involved.

Given the complexity of DNA repair pathways and gene regulation, this was akin to trying to untie a Gordian Knot.

"Unbranded," represents Thomas's attempt to untie the knot that he tried to draw our attention to in "B®anded".

The Obama administration tried mightily to entice Assad into "engaging" Washington in a vain attempt to untie Assad from his patron Ahmadinejad.