UNDO in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for UNDO, such as:
1. I managed secretly to undo a corner of the parcel.
2. When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began.
3. We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily.
4. Study says police must undo community distrust, which it calls a barrier to outreach.
5. 'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
2. When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began.
3. We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily.
4. Study says police must undo community distrust, which it calls a barrier to outreach.
5. 'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
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Meanings and Examples of UNDO
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undo
v. deprive of certain characteristics
v. cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily.
2 Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he would even make haste, where it was possible, to undo the evil done by Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3 Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds.
4 When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began.
5 No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
6 Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
7 She had not time to undo, and so carried back with her, the parcel of toys she had chosen the day before in a toy shop with such love and sorrow.
8 It gave him an intense sense of power to know that he could, by a single act of consent, in a moment of thought, undo all that he had done.
9 I light a fire, for we have brought supply of wood with us, and she prepare food while I undo the horses and set them, tethered in shelter, to feed.
10 Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
11 He hastened to undo it; and, with smothered voices and heavy tread, came several men, bringing a body, wrapped in a cloak, and lying on a shutter.
12 His very first, remotest recollections of childhood came back to Prince Andrew's mind when the dresser with sleeves rolled up began hastily to undo the buttons of his clothes and undressed him.
13 Had I been able to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to go far away, I should have been safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
14 Hence it follows that those things he does one day he undoes the next, and no one ever understands what he wishes or intends to do, and no one can rely on his resolutions.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
15 She said, "Oh," again and their eyes met and the fluttering lashes were his undoing.
Example Sentence:
1 Study says police must undo community distrust, which it calls a barrier to outreach.
2 'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
3 I managed secretly to undo a corner of the parcel.
4 It was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself.