How to Use unmake in a Sentence

unmake

verb

• Being made and unmade by a force greater than yourself?
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The big questions Whyte talks about — the ones that make or unmake a life — seemed easier to answer.
  — Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
• That which makes us also unmakes us, and the process of living seems inextricably bound to the process of dying.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
• And unless decomposers unmake, there isn’t anything that the composers can make with.
  — Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• The Senate has the power to make and unmake such procedures; the Democratic Party could have done away with the filibuster in 2009 and simply chose not to.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Almost as rapidly, a sudden backlash from its many fans nearly unmade it.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
• The devices, many of them suspect, also serve to sap the hardiness of a self that could resist and unmake all these other indignities.
  — Choire Sicha, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
• Businesses crafted by public policies, though, can be unmade by them too.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• The forces of erosion act here as a kind of generative impulse, unmaking as inspiration to make.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• Which is exactly the way that OpenAI, the company that stands to benefit the most from everyone believing its product has the power to remake — or unmake — the world, wants it.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• As a book written not just about fear but written in fear, Wolfish is a fascinating document illuminating how white women’s fear is used to make and unmake the world.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Reading liberates and torments us, enlightens and bewilders us, makes and unmakes our social and solitary selves.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Both memoirs testify to the ways rare friendships can make and unmake us as fully as any fiery romance or formative familial relationship.
  — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• Policy played a role in creating this state of affairs, but that doesn’t mean that individual reforms to education can unmake it.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• But Trump got to Washington by promising to unmake the political ecosystem, eradicating the existing species and populating it anew.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• Limited in range but emotionally enlightening, the instruction resonantly conjugates the way language makes and unmakes us.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• In aligning herself so firmly with Trilling’s perspective, Robins repeats her subject’s mistakes, neglecting to address the psyche’s calculated oversights and necessary errors, the desperate little contradictions that made and unmade her.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• Donald Trump is almost universally condemned for unmaking the liberal international order that has helped to keep the peace and generate unprecedented prosperity.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• Spare future generations having to unmake regrettable choices.
  — Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2022
• The solution to increasing equity among these historically disadvantaged communities created through zoning practices is to robustly reform those practices and begin to unmake the conditions that led to disparity, Mayo said.
  — Leah Waters, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024