Unpick

Definition

unpick /ʌn'pÇk / v (ခ်ဳပ္႐ိုးစသည္) ေျဖသည္။ unpick a hem/ seam ❍ I had to unpick all the stitching and start again.

Examples

1. ‘My Auntie at one point unpicked and re-tied a section of it because she had the wrong shade of pink.’
2. ‘Shy
3. plump
4. wearing a hand-knitted blue angora bolero
5. slaved over by my mother unpicked more than once to get it just right for the big occasion.’
6. ‘Now
7. having unpicked and screwed up several times (I'm on the second hand now)
8. I am beginning to realise why I don't knit more often.’
9. ‘Penelope-like
10. she both weaves a narrative and contextual account of Lippi's life and work and unpicks her handiwork
11. creatively frustrating the reader's expectation of biographical closure.’
12. ‘Yellow is the percussion of light beneath clouds heavy as persecution
13. the sweetness running from waxy cells
14. the body honeyed with softness when pain's gold embroidery is unpicked.’
15. ‘Of course
16. you need to know beforehand that it fits
17. because you don't want to have to unpick all this stitching to alter it later.’
18. ‘They decided to secure the banner for the night and then return to unpick it in the morning and attempt to pull it further up the building.’
19. ‘It's obvious that being interviewed is proving quite distracting so I offer to unpick it for her while she talks.’
20. ‘I spent hours at school making the cross-stitch ‘peg bag’ that everyone had to make only to stand up at the end of the lesson to find I'd attached it to my skirt and had to unpick it all.’
21. ‘I found it useful to use the removed strap to increase leverage on the ‘loop’ side when unpicking it.’
22. ‘Therefore I reasoned
23. the longer I left it before I started sewing
24. the longer it would be before I was squinting well into the night unpicking it.’
25. ‘After unpicking the strap and removing M
26. I
27. C and H thinking they might come in useful some time
28. I was left with O
29. S
30. N and O
31. which I fiddled around with a bit before settling on SNOO
32. which somehow appealed to me.’
33. ‘Surrounded by suitors who were after the absent master's wealth and the absent master's bed
34. she fobs them off by saying she must finish her weaving before making her mind up - and cannily unpicks it each night.’
35. ‘Start unpicking the elbows from those sweaters.’
36. ‘Turn the skirt to the right side and unpick the seam using an unpicking tool of sharp pointed scissors.’
37. ‘You would unpick the sides of your jeans and as soon as you sewed the material into it and put them on
38. you just thought you were gorgeous.’
39. ‘He smiled as he recalled Chris's first words on returning from his interrupted visit to his family - ‘I'm gone for one day
40. and the threads of the universe start unpicking behind me.’’
41. ‘Carefully unpicking the myth that has grown up around these games
42. Dougan illuminates an horrific period in Ukrainian history without succumbing to sensation.’
43. ‘Alice Miles in the Times has a stab at unpicking this.’
44. ‘Judy Cox unpicks the United Nations report into Israeli army atrocities’