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unsheathe

[ UK /ʌnʃˈiːð/ ]
VERB
  1. draw from a sheath or scabbard
    the knight unsheathed his sword

How To Use unsheathe In A Sentence

  • People who have pledged their lives to fighting Islamic extremism, when asked about Charles Johnson now, unsheathe a word they do not throw around lightly ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Comparing Left and Right Blogospheres
  • The hands have been cantilevered to feel light, so one moment they are delicate as butterfly wings, the next they're as terrifying as unsheathed claws.
  • Mohammedan sword was again unsheathed; for fresh in their memories were the terrible atrocities perpetrated during the former uprising, which was one long intermittent period of bloodshed and pillage lasting from 1861 to 1874, both parties, however, assenting to a cessation of hostilities each year during seedtime and harvest. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • They stood in the trenches, weapons unsheathed and arrows nocked on bows.
  • His beauty was like a sword unsheathed, bright as sun-struck steel and twice as hard. Kushiel's Avatar
  • As I unsheathed it, the blade reflected the light of the fireplace, producing a gleam on the edge.
  • David watched in awe and mounting panic as she unsheathed her beauty.
  • The obvious answer, from the moment he joylessly unsheathes his defibrillation paddles, is no. Times, Sunday Times
  • I cannot blame my soldiers for mutinying, Antony thought as he sat with his unsheathed sword in his lap, ready. Antony and Cleopatra
  • The beadlike eyes turned, glittering, on all sides; the thin, wicked lips quivered with bad passions; the tiny hands sheathed and unsheathed the little swords and daggers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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