How to Use unmake in a Sentence

unmake

verb
  • Amy’s not here either, the top bunk unmade, blankets in a heap.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 June 2025
  • Make no mistake, however, these were shoes that were made to be unmade.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 2 July 2025
  • By the time Ben is unmaking the bed, lying in it, and cussing João out, the fight is bad.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 May 2026
  • Almost as rapidly, a sudden backlash from its many fans nearly unmade it.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The big questions Whyte talks about — the ones that make or unmake a life — seemed easier to answer.
    — Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Blockbuster franchises, while appealing to many, leave just as many great script ideas unmade.
    — Larry Dvoskin, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • And unless decomposers unmake, there isn’t anything that the composers can make with.
    — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
  • Businesses crafted by public policies, though, can be unmade by them too.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Marketing needs to know how decisions get made and unmade at your prospects' companies.
    — Alison Murdock, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Pain can unmake a person’s world, almost literally.
    — Boyce Upholt, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025
  • But this supreme and irresistible power to make or to unmake, resides only in the whole body of the people; not in any subdivision of them.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The forces of erosion act here as a kind of generative impulse, unmaking as inspiration to make.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • The devices, many of them suspect, also serve to sap the hardiness of a self that could resist and unmake all these other indignities.
    — Choire Sicha, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Reading liberates and torments us, enlightens and bewilders us, makes and unmakes our social and solitary selves.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Segovia says the organization wants to remind trans Texans that their identities are valid, no matter what rules state agencies make and unmake.
    — Nico Lang, Them, 3 Sep. 2024
  • An ellipsis making and unmaking itself.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Both memoirs testify to the ways rare friendships can make and unmake us as fully as any fiery romance or formative familial relationship.
    — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Policy played a role in creating this state of affairs, but that doesn’t mean that individual reforms to education can unmake it.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Right at its center is a two-scene knockout about the making (and unmaking) of reputations that only an actor of Hackman’s deftness could pull off.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • That's because the foundational environmental laws of the country prescribe a process for making and unmaking rules.
    — Neela Banerjee, NPR, 13 Mar. 2025
  • As a book written not just about fear but written in fear, Wolfish is a fascinating document illuminating how white women’s fear is used to make and unmake the world.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the aftermath, Connor, one of road decommissioning’s foremost pioneers, set to unmaking what her forebears had built.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Spare future generations having to unmake regrettable choices.
    — Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In Peter Jackson’s hands, jewelry becomes geopolitics—one accessory to unmake a world.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Limited in range but emotionally enlightening, the instruction resonantly conjugates the way language makes and unmakes us.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But Trump got to Washington by promising to unmake the political ecosystem, eradicating the existing species and populating it anew.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • The Senate has the power to make and unmake such procedures; the Democratic Party could have done away with the filibuster in 2009 and simply chose not to.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Which is exactly the way that OpenAI, the company that stands to benefit the most from everyone believing its product has the power to remake — or unmake — the world, wants it.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The picture that emerged was more multifaceted than the one Thompson had painted, with complicated intersections of race, gender, and geography continually unmaking and remaking group identities.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The solution to increasing equity among these historically disadvantaged communities created through zoning practices is to robustly reform those practices and begin to unmake the conditions that led to disparity, Mayo said.
    — Leah Waters, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023

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