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How to use unscrew in a sentence

17 example sentences · verb

Unscrew means to loosen a screw or thing by turning it. Example: “I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.”

Examples of unscrew by meaning

verbTo loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

  • I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.
  • It requires opening a complex lock with a key that also unscrews a bolt six inches long.1984 May 31, Joseph Giovannini, “THE ENDURING FASCINATION OF SECRET PLACES”, in The New York Times
  • A young orangutan in the San Diego Zoo became famous for unbolting the screening of his crib, removing the wires, and moving through the zoo nursery, unscrewing lightbulbs.2003 June 7, Edward Tenner, “'Our Own Devices'”, in The New York Times

More sentences with unscrew

  • Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.From the entry ungloved
  • Four-year-old Anna surprised her parents when she unscrewed the screw cap and poured herself a glass of milk, like an old pro.From the entry screw cap
  • The final one was one that made her stop halfway through unscrewing her bottle of advocat.2012 March 15, Sarah Monk, Taking the Lead, Little Black Dress, →ISBN. From the entry advocat
  • This may be as easy as unscrewing the saddle and prying it out.2008 September 1, Editors of Creative Publishing, Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000…. From the entry saddle
  • I keep meaning to unscrew the tension thingy, but somehow it never gets done.1999 May 11, Richard Walsh, quoting Anthea, “The sheep in the living room”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry shlurp
  • If you screw up unscrew the corkscrew and rescrew to unscrew what you have screwed up.1994, Carole Marsh, Arkansas "Crinkum-Crankum", Carole Marsh Books, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry rescrew
  • The bottle cap rasped as she unscrewed it and glugged some Bailey's into her mug, the spoon tinkling as she stirred.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 281. From the entry glug
  • I had to unscrew the rotation mechanism and flip it around so that Tate mode games play the right way up.2002 September 20, JigsawMan, “What television are you using with your console?”, in uk.games.video.dreamcast (Usenet). From the entry tate
  • While Eleanor spoke to the bosswoman about price, I took a deep breath and unscrewed the cap from my fountain pen.1946 September 26, “Pitching Horseshoes with Billy Rose”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 72, number 109, St. Louis, Mo., page 1B. From the entry bosswoman
  • He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding.2012, Courtney Milan, The Duchess War. From the entry glop
  • After Peter finished checking the operating system setup, he carefully unscrewed his pen drive and plugged the USB connection into the computer.2006 April, Juliane Viskup, Misdirection, Bloomington: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry pen drive
  • With a monkey wrench on the hexagonal part of the stuffing box unscrew the stuffing box from the body of the faucet.1948, George M. Warren, Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home: Farmers' Bulletin, number 1460, page 2. From the entry monkey wrench
  • With the tank upside down, pull or twist off the rubber spud washer and use a spud wrench to unscrew the large locking net from the flush valve.2002, Bill Marken, How to Fix (just About) Everything, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry spud washer
  • If it be seen that any of the pins are unscrewed stop the shafting at once and rescrew these pins; rescrew the collars immediately if need be.1908, Paul Dumesny, J. Noyer, Wood products: distillates and extracts, page 177. From the entry rescrew

Meaning of unscrew

  1. verb To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

Full definition of unscrew

Questions about unscrew in a sentence

How do you use unscrew in a sentence?
Unscrew is used as a verb. For example: “I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.”
What is a short sentence with unscrew?
“I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.”
What does unscrew mean?
Unscrew means to loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unscrew (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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