How to Use untwist in a Sentence

untwist

verb
  • From there, the robot starts to untwist, like a spring that stores energy in its body.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
  • When removing the cork, hold the top of the cage with your thumb to keep the cork in place and untwist the wire six times.
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2017
  • The goal is to untwist the cap with a spin kick, without moving the bottle itself.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • If the testicle is not untwisted within hours, it can be lost.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • For physical breakup of the blockage, untwist and extend a wire hanger and poke around in there.
    — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • To refill the Hew Dewy, untwist the top and bring the bottom piece to the nearest sink.
    — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2023
  • By twisting and untwisting the fibers in a water bath, the researchers could measure their performance as coolants.
    — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Daily untwisted the beer bottle cap, poured it into his shoe, and took a healthy swig, standing up for dramatic effect.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • In the team’s lab tests, an untwisting fiber spun a bit of paper at 600 revolutions per minute for a full five seconds.
    — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
  • The second-hour intrigue is sharp enough to hold your interest and the final bit of untwisting registers as near-perfect.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Field stripping just requires untwisting the magazine tube cap and pushing out the trigger assembly pin.
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
  • Allowing each of these fibers to quickly untwist produced a cooling effect, but its strength varied, depending on the material.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Stretching this setup actually untwists the line instead of twisting it tighter, reversing the warming/cooling cycle.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Simply twisting and untwisting the rubber worked even better, with an average temperature change of about 12°C.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The best part of this week's immunity challenge was not the fact that Carolyn could not figure out how to untwist herself from the muddy net and therefore resorted to a random series of yells and screams.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Turner’s demand to end the trend comes after Kendall Jenner posted a clip of herself untwisting a bottle cap while riding a jet ski and wearing a tiny green bikini on Monday.
    — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2019
  • Ovarian torsion can be diagnosed with an ultrasound, and it’s treated surgically with a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure to untwist the pedicle of the ovary so blood can flow back into it.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • How To Coil Cables Audio engineers swear by the overunder method of coiling, which retains the natural shape of the cord's internal wires and keeps them completely untwisted.
    — Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2013
  • In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and Stanford Universities have filmed atoms twisting and untwisting in perfect sync, a choreography that unfolds in just a trillionth of a second.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025

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