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  • verb Present participle of untwist.

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Examples

  • There are a number of dramatic scenes on operating tables in Cutting for Stone: the twins 'births, Thomas Stone amputating his own finger, Ghosh untwisting Colonel Mebratu's volvulus, the liver transplant, etc.

    Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese: Questions 2009

  • Paul stood at the new door that had been installed next to the utility sink, twisting and untwisting the knob.

    The Rat Eats Last Janet Freeman 2011

  • If there is I make the necessary adjustments by twisting or occasionally untwisting.

    Broadhead Point of Impact 2009

  • If there is I make the necessary adjustments by twisting or occasionally untwisting.

    Broadhead Point of Impact 2009

  • There are a number of dramatic scenes on operating tables in Cutting for Stone: the twins 'births, Thomas Stone amputating his own finger, Ghosh untwisting Colonel Mebratu's volvulus, the liver transplant, etc.

    Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese: Questions 2009

  • Using a set of rented pliers, Valcin, a 36-year-old whose toes stick through gaping holes in his high-tops, has spent hours untwisting the metal straps that hold the long strands of rebar to the heavier metal-support beams.

    In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets 2010

  • Using a set of rented pliers, Valcin, a 36-year-old whose toes stick through gaping holes in his high-tops, has spent hours untwisting the metal straps that hold the long strands of rebar to the heavier metal-support beams.

    In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets Manuel Roig-Franzia 2010

  • They have figured out how to open the doors, untwisting twisties and untying string.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Using a set of rented pliers, Valcin, a 36-year-old whose toes stick through gaping holes in his high-tops, has spent hours untwisting the metal straps that hold the long strands of rebar to the heavier metal-support beams.

    In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets 2010

  • Using a set of rented pliers, Valcin, a 36-year-old whose toes stick through gaping holes in his high-tops, has spent hours untwisting the metal straps that hold the long strands of rebar to the heavier metal-support beams.

    In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets Manuel Roig-Franzia 2010

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