How to Use unhinge in a Sentence

unhinge

verb
Definition of unhingenext
Synonyms for unhingenext
  • I was momentarily unhinged by the unexpected question.
  • In the State, you were just unhinged enough to not get in the way.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Allen, though, was unhinged by the pressure that forced him to slide in the pocket.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • To clean roller brushes, unhinge the covering (called the brush guard) and pull out the brush.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Get-in-my-belly scale: Sure, just need to unhinge our jaws.
    — Lauren Le Vine, Redbook, 23 May 2014
  • In Deadpool terms, prepare to unhinge your jaw and take it all in.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 26 July 2024
  • The doors have three hinges, and the bottom hinge keeps coming unhinged, which causes the door to sag on one side.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 9 July 2019
  • And if Trump had done so, the media — and the German — response would have been unhinged furor.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 4 June 2019
  • That game-tying homer seemed to unhinge Teheran and lock down the Padres — or at least Margot.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2019
  • Look out for Gronk gone wild, Gronk unhinged, Gronk unleashed.
    — Dan Gelston, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019
  • That’s what [showrunners Michelle and Robert King] want to write about: the world becoming unhinged.
    — Margy Rochlin, latimes.com, 3 June 2019
  • Send advice requests, unhinged rants and Taco Bell gift cards to ldaprile@cleveland.com.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • This shooting wasn’t the Uvalde sort of thing — where one unhinged, aggrieved lone wolf went on a murder spree at a school.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And the action set pieces in 6 Underground are unhinged.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
  • And the telling of the sequence provides an apt introduction to the woman who made Green just unhinged enough to take the Padres job and see it through.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The thick telescoping boom began to move, unhinging itself, and the cube moved down toward the rocky earth.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • Unbeknownst to her, one of the stall doors was partially unhinged.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, OregonLive.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The general consensus was that Trump was unhinged and Biden did fine.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
  • Their lower jaws can unhinge to give them a massive gape and their flexible skulls are made of bones that can move against each other.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2010
  • Contrary to popular belief, pythons don’t unhinge their jaws to gulp down their food.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • There are those who think noodlers are unhinged hillbillies and will never, ever try it.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
  • From coming unhinged at the sight of her ex, too much wine and perhaps the shock of witnessing signs of Franklin’s mortality, Maude faints.
    — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
  • Overall, though, Copilot appeared to be unhinged from the start of the conversation.
    — Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The jacket, a ’60s-style number with ostentatious fringe on the front, sides and sleeves, transfixes Georges and then unhinges him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Here is the opening of the novel: At magic hour, when the sun is gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • And the whole of Israeli society has been unhinged by the experience.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing absurdly large prey.
    — Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And Michelle Monaghan is suitably unhinged as a former teacher who slept with a student.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Then Bo has the nerve to accept Franz’s apology...and Toni unhinges her jaw and devours everyone.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The premise is simple, yet unhinged: Ten women compete in a series of beauty pageant-like challenges.
    — Courtney Lund, Marie Claire, 20 June 2018

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