Sentence examples for unmake from inspiring English sources
verb
To destroy; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.
But man made it, and man can unmake it".Across the city other entrepreneurs are also "unmaking" wrecked parts of town.
Duvalier Jr allowed his more sophisticated and energetic wife to dominate cabinet meetings and make and unmake ministers.
What Westminster has made, it has authority to unmake.
And she came up with a famous answer that has hovered over the arguments about feminism and femininity ever since: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman".The obvious corollary was that you could unbecome one, too: what society makes, a person can unmake, or can if there are enough like you to change the rules.
A prime minister is free to make and unmake ministers as he pleases.
And if there's enough of it, it can counteract the tendency of these cycles to make and then unmake ice ages.
The question drawn is whether being an anomalous leftover is what makes a landmark, or what unmakes it.
In this making, "the subject unmakes himself, like a spider dissolving in the constructive secretions of its web" (The Pleasure of the Text, 1973).
That which makes us also unmakes us, and the process of living seems inextricably bound to the process of dying.
According to his Mental Principle Argument, the god worshipped by a people elevates or debases them since "the abstract principle that the idea of God contains, inherently, such transforming power in a nation, that it makes or unmakes, according as it is clear, and right, and grand; or, on the other hand, is low, and rude, and sensual" ("God and the Nation" [FA], 154).
