Untwine example sentences

Related (12): disentangle, untangle, unwind, separate, unravel, detach, loosen, unfasten, twist, twine, entangle, knot

"Untwine" Example Sentences

  1. She tried to untwine the headphone cords that had gotten knotted in her bag.
  2. He sat on the floor for ten minutes trying to untwine the Christmas lights from last year.
  3. The vines had grown so thick that it took three of us to untwine them from the fence.
  4. I can't untwine this mess — just cut it out.
  5. Gently untwine the rope before you coil it back up.
  6. After the accident, the metal was so bent that mechanics couldn't untwine the frame.
  7. She watched him untwine the string from around the package with surprising patience.
  8. The therapist helped her untwine the complicated feelings she'd been holding onto for years.
  9. You have to untwine the cables carefully or you'll damage them.
  10. He sat there for hours trying to untwine his thoughts about what happened.
  11. The dancers had to untwine themselves from the choreography to find their own movement.
  12. I finally managed to untwine the garden hose from the bush where it got stuck.
  13. When you untwine the two stories, you realize they're actually connected.
  14. The knot was so tight that I couldn't untwine it by hand.
  15. She felt like she needed to untwine herself from her family's expectations.
  16. The rope had been twisted so many times that it took forever to untwine.
  17. He began to untwine the mystery of what really happened that night.
  18. My sister and I had to untwine our hair after we fell asleep braided together.
  19. The vines untwine naturally as the plant grows and spreads.
  20. I watched her fingers work to untwine the delicate chain from around the pendant.
  21. To untwine the relationship, they had to have some really difficult conversations.
  22. The old electrical wires were impossible to untwine without professional help.
  23. She took a breath and tried to untwine the panic from her chest.
  24. The story takes time to untwine — it's not a simple narrative.
  25. He used a comb to untwine the matted fur from the dog's coat.
  26. You'll need to untwine that knot before you can use the rope again.
  27. The therapist said I needed to untwine my identity from my job.
  28. It took patience to untwine the threads without breaking them.
  29. She couldn't untwine fact from fiction in what he was telling her.
  30. The roots had grown so intertwined that we had to carefully untwine them to separate the plants.

Common Phrases

  1. untwine from
  2. untwine the knot
  3. untwine the rope
  4. untwine oneself
  5. untwine the vines
  6. untwine the cord
  7. untwine the mystery
  8. untwine the threads
  9. untwine the cables
  10. untwine the truth

Examples by Level

A1
  1. Can you help me untwine this rope?
  2. The string is twisted — I need to untwine it.
A2
  1. She sat down to untwine the headphones from her pocket.
  2. It took him a long time to untwine the garden hose from the fence.
B1
  1. Once you untwine the two stories, you'll see how they're actually connected.
  2. He was trying to untwine his feelings about what happened at work.
B2
  1. The therapist helped her untwine the complicated emotions she'd been carrying for years.
  2. To understand the conflict, you have to untwine the personal issues from the professional ones.
C1
  1. The narrative's complexity lies in its refusal to untwine the threads of memory and invention.
  2. She found herself needing to untwine her sense of self from the expectations others had imposed.
C2
  1. What makes the novel compelling is how it resists the urge to untwine the moral ambiguities that define its characters.
  2. The process of learning to untwine oneself from inherited trauma is neither linear nor complete.

Examples by Scenario

🏠 Everyday Life
  1. I spent twenty minutes trying to untwine the Christmas lights before I just gave up.
  2. My kid's hair got so tangled that I had to carefully untwine it with conditioner.
💼 Workplace
  1. The project manager had to untwine the conflicting priorities from three different departments.
  2. During the meeting, we tried to untwine what the client actually wanted from what they said they wanted.
📊 Business
  1. The audit revealed we needed to untwine our finances from the parent company's accounts.
  2. The merger required months of work to untwine the two companies' operations.
🛒 Buying / Shopping
  1. The necklace came tangled in the box — I had to carefully untwine it before wearing it.
  2. These earbuds are impossible to untwine once they get knotted together.
✈️ Travel
  1. At the airport, I had to untwine my luggage from someone else's on the carousel.
  2. The hiking trail was so overgrown that we had to untwine branches just to walk through.
📚 Education
  1. The teacher asked us to untwine the different themes in the novel.
  2. Students had to untwine fact from opinion in the historical documents they were analyzing.
❤️ Relationships
  1. After ten years together, it was painful to untwine our lives and go separate ways.
  2. She realized she needed to untwine her happiness from his approval.
📰 News / Politics
  1. Investigators are still trying to untwine the connections between the two scandals.
  2. The report attempts to untwine the political motivations from the stated reasons for the decision.
💻 Technology
  1. The cables behind my desk are so tangled I'm afraid to untwine them.
  2. The software update made it harder to untwine your personal data from the company's systems.
📝 Formal Writing
  1. The analysis seeks to untwine the various factors contributing to the economic downturn.
  2. Researchers must carefully untwine correlation from causation in their findings.

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