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unstrung

[ UK /ʌnstɹˈʌŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. emotionally upset
    the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort

How To Use unstrung In A Sentence

  • While sternwards whirled unstrung—pale beads of foam, Morning at Sea in the Tropics
  • I cautioned calmly as I unstrung my bow, coiling the string.
  • He saw his arrow hit its mark and calmly unstrung his bow before replacing it in his quiver.
  • He shook his brown hair out of his eyes as he unstrung his longbow.
  • Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung.
  • She wouldn't jump up and screech every time the door slams if she'd been as used to noises as Ma is, and this talk about her nerves bein 'all unstrung is just plain silly – and as for her not sleepin' at nights, she sleeps as sound as any of us. The Second Chance
  • She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
  • Above, power lines hang, their criss-crossed cables dangling like an unstrung bow. Some Will Leave
  • He nodded in agreement, his bow unstrung and resting on his back.
  • On the wall adjacent to the targets, hung unstrung bows of every kind - longbows, short bows, recurves and compounds, even a crossbow - and beside them hung quivers full of arrows.
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