How to Use unbind in a Sentence

unbind

verb
  • She managed to unbind her hands.
  • Jesus descends and breaks down the doors of hell, unbinds the prisoners and leads the just to heaven.
    — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Vauthier’s wines aren’t appellation wines, but simple vin de France: wines unbound by the rules of the A.O.C., made in a freewheeling spirit with the right grapes for the job.
    — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Its vistas, forests and canyons are branded in the nation’s imagination, an expanse where the soul is unbound across 450 million acres of public lands.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • The thought of bringing AI into an area where, by its very definition, the problem is unbound was really intriguing.
    — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 19 June 2018
  • Galaxies would be destroyed, the solar system would unbind and eventually all the planets would burst asunder as the rapid expansion of space rips apart its very atoms.
    — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The other frontier unbound by international law is space.
    — Melissa K. Chan, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
  • However, there is a big division among Trump-loathing Republicans over whether a change in convention rules, which would essentially unbind delegates from the candidate, or a third-party option is the best way to go.
    — Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 15 June 2016
  • Most are private schools unbound by strict eligibility rules.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • But for Buddhists, dying is an opportunity to unbind from the past and start again.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The stars will be long gone before our galaxy unbinds itself.
    — Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps, to vanish well entails allowing others to help unbind you, trusting them to keep your secrets.
    — Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020

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