untwined

Floresbinda heard the doctor say that her son was dead before he untwined the umbilical cord that was wrapped twice around the baby's neck and began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Renee Feltz: Texas Keeps Retarded Men on Death Row 2010

With admirable aplomb two brisk figures heaved up into the gateway from the fields without, amiably wreathed together, collided with Bledri in midpassage, and untwined themselves to embrace him between them.

His Disposition 2010

Startled, she untwined her antennae from his as fast as if they had been greased, and drew back.

Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

Startled, she untwined her antennae from his as fast as if they had been greased, and drew back.

Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

Startled, she untwined her antennae from his as fast as if they had been greased, and drew back.

Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

Once the censorship question was called, the double helix of sexual protection and liberation untwined into two strands; the simple mixture of the xx chromosome and a desire for positive change was no longer enough to bind the complex organism the movement had become.

Archives de la Stan 2005

Startled, she untwined her antennae from his as fast as if they had been greased, and drew back.

Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

At these times Annie would never ask me any crafty questions (as Eliza did), but would sit with her hair untwined, and one hand underneath her chin, sometimes looking softly at me, as much as to say that she knew it all and I was no worse off than she.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Her inner muscles relaxed, and she untwined her legs from about his and set her feet flat on the ground on either side of him.

Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

With obvious reluctance, the one lowered his fist and the other untwined his fingers from the crushed fabric of Crandall's tunic front.

Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000