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How to use uncouple in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb

Uncouple means to disconnect or detach one thing from another. Example: “We uncoupled the trailer and left it behind.”

Examples of uncouple by meaning

verbTo disconnect or detach one thing from another.

  • We uncoupled the trailer and left it behind.
  • The railway workers uncoupled the cars near the tail end of the train.
  • The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948

More sentences with uncouple

  • The Edinburgh locomotive uncoupled, a brake test is performed and we're away.2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 43. From the entry motionless
  • This uncoupling may be induced by targeted remodeling trying to repair the running induced microdamage in bone.2015 July 6, “Changes in Serum Levels of Myokines and Wnt-Antagonists after an Ultramarathon Race”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microdamage
  • This can be explained by considering the degree of neuroventilatory uncoupling in these patients.2015 October 24, “Understanding Heroin Overdose: A Study of the Acute Respiratory Depressant Effects of Injected Pharmaceutical Heroin”…. From the entry neuroventilatory
  • In unicellulars the uncoupling of the various nutritional and energy sources is much more widely spread.1986, Johan A J Metz, O Diekmann, The dynamics of physiologically structured populations. From the entry unicellular
  • Even fewer can describe how relationships are exited in a way that all parties remain whole through 'conscious uncoupling'.2016, Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs, Enterprise Relationship Management: A Paradigm For Alliance Success, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry conscious uncoupling
  • Formulated more provocatively: In four dimensions we only understand an (infinite) collection of uncoupled harmonic oscillators on Minkowski space !2001 October 5, T[homas] Thiemann, “Why Quantum Gravity in the 21st Century ?”, in Introduction to Modern Canonical Quantum General…. From the entry ashamingly
  • Well, I think it's high time to uncouple our car and affirm our rights as proud gay men.1977 August 20, Wayne Dynes, “The New Victorianism”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 5. From the entry subordinationist
  • Unloading is by tipplers on to a moving conveyor at the power station, which naturally involves uncoupling individual wagons.1964 May, “News and Comment: A Scottish coal circuit working”, in Modern Railways, page 299, photo caption. From the entry tippler
  • As product selling and solution selling split off from accelerator selling (call it “conscious uncoupling” if you like), there are two major implications.2016, Lou Schachter, Rick Cheatham, Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling Change, McGraw Hill Professional…. From the entry conscious uncoupling
  • Uncoupling of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is caused by excessive free cytosolic Ca 2+ which is instrumental in directing the cells to follow the executionary part of apoptosis.2015 October 6, “Andrographolide Analogue Induces Apoptosis and Autophagy Mediated Cell Death in U937 Cells by Inhibition of PI3K/Akt/mTOR…. From the entry executionary
  • This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42. From the entry regulator

Meaning of uncouple

  1. verb To disconnect or detach one thing from another.
  2. verb To come loose.
  3. verb To loose, as dogs, from their couples.

Full definition of uncouple

Questions about uncouple in a sentence

How do you use uncouple in a sentence?
Uncouple is used as a verb. For example: “We uncoupled the trailer and left it behind.”
What is a short sentence with uncouple?
“We uncoupled the trailer and left it behind.”
What does uncouple mean?
Uncouple means to disconnect or detach one thing from another.

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