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Sentence Examples Sweeney's conversion edged the Dragons a point in front but just as quickly, a stupidly errant hand in the scrum proved their undoing. The lever couldn't be removed without undoing the nut so I decided to cut it with my hacksaw. She spied the knot in the rope that bound her ankles and immediately set to undoing it. He simply chuckled in return, stepping closer and undoing the latch to the metal box on the floor. But in taking on the anti-communists, overconfidence may prove to be his undoing. In the long run, such a change has the promise of both righting the economy and undoing social wrongs. Money galore can be pumped into cleanliness but you cannot stop Joe Public from undoing all the hard work by dropping litter or dumping rubbish. In the end, they adopted a little of both, which may have been their ultimate undoing. Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. I replied, undoing my ponytail and teasing my hair to make it look a bit better. Alas, the thickening undergrowth has also proven the undoing of one of the less bright avian ground feeders. Just then, there was a short knock and the door swung open to reveal his mother, undoing her tight, business-like bun. Glaswegians everywhere were celebrating the arrival of the fine weather by undoing the top toggle on their duffel-coats. In a sense, his undoing was the fact that he made no secret of how he revelled in success and its trappings. Tucking the end of the sash between my thumb and the palm of my hand, I gave a hard tug, undoing the knot. DeNiro underacts brilliantly, creating a character whose obsessive concern for control and order is both his means to the top and his undoing. McGinley had been in touch with the leaders since day one but two bogeys and a double bogey in four holes proved his undoing. Brett opened the door, undoing her seatbelt and picking her up in his arms. The Indian government team lost a lot of ground and successive efforts were devoted to undoing some of this damage. But this time, it has more to do with rectifying or even undoing some of the damage that resulted from the last international economic movement. Show More Sentences These range from nice functions like undoing and redoing a command, running spellcheck and printing a document. I looked up at the structure that had been the instrument of our undoing and cursed it. Her mother's undoing was prompted by her discovery that Alessandro, her much younger husband, had fallen in love with a family friend. As the anthrax example demonstrates, our own investment in weapons of mass destruction can easily turn into our own undoing. Their undoing was their failure to capitalise on at least three overlaps from which tries beckoned. By contrast, the Foxes created just two chances and scored twice as the visitors' defensive failings proved to be their undoing again. He is capable of taking over this game, and if he does, Illinois' primary weakness will be its undoing. United huffed and puffed, and always looked organised, but their old failings in front of goal were again their undoing. We just weren't organised enough to deal with the break and that's been our undoing. It is that lack of batting consistency that has been our undoing so far, but we are starting to put together higher totals more regularly. They pulled one or two shirts in the game and that turned out to be their undoing. However, this approach almost proves his undoing as he fails to spot Warne's slider and is agonisingly close to edging the ball to Gilchrist. The happenstance of the love for the tree house, ostensibly built for the children, might well have been your undoing. So what has caused the undoing of what started out as an enthusiastic and well meaning initiative? Such garbled ruminations, however, were my very first undoing, for instanter I had stepped on vicious air and landed a good three feet below. If you shock or disgust her by precipitancy or over-eagerness, or zeal, appreciate it may be the undoing of your wedded bliss and joy. Global warming, they have been telling us for years, will prove to be man's undoing, man creating his own doomsday. The common view is that it was the track which proved his undoing and fans are not at all downhearted by that defeat. Seeing himself as an Adonis and a gift to women and lacking any respect for the gender was his undoing. Worst case scenario, I come back with a cold and am still left with the daunting task of undoing all my bad karma with good karma. Show More Sentences The hullabaloo following this seemed to unsettled Laois who appeared to lose their concentration, and this very nearly proved to be their undoing. Her strange sexual allure is her undoing, almost a punishment, and a lifetime of violence and abuse sees her looking for love in all the wrong places. It is more like an anti-gimmick, undoing the gimmickry of often clumsy stereo effects. The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing. Marxists say it's not possible to change the rules, that capitalism will always engender its own crises, that its own avidity, greed, and iron laws will be its undoing. Just as Strauss-Kahn critics joked that his zipper could be his undoing, Sarkozy cynics bet on a baby. The deckhands were busy undoing the smaller sails aft and ahead. The country he had so ardently defended and the city of Benghazi, which he had helped to save and he so loved, proved his undoing. The forces that led to the council's undoing will not disappear. It was the most violent day in the history of Ukraine since Soviet times and it proved to be the undoing of the Yanukovych regime. Boosting spending and undoing a chunk of the sequester is likely to have a bigger impact on the still-ailing job market. That handshake you asked for was the undoing of 70 years of UAW bargaining. However, as opportunistically as St Brendan's took their three goals it was their inability to string any real sort of scoring run together that was their ultimate undoing. There are glimpses of smoky rooms, rolling seas and fiery skies, all conveyed with the desperation of a man who clearly realizes his escapism is also his undoing. His fear is that this proof will have to be produced individually in each case and that the process will prove the undoing of many, in dairy farming in particular. I spent a long time undoing five knots from one length of yo-yo string. Once again, football's insatiable greed threatens to be its undoing. Yet, in Celtic's undoing by Barcelona in their Champions League opener on Tuesday, his uncomplicated style makes him an easy target, as much as an obvious target man. Twice it seemed Carnoustie had the cup in their grasp, but each time it was their own failings, rather than the extraordinary Strang which proved their undoing. If not, he's faced with undoing a lifetime's worth of assumptions. Show More Sentences I reciprocated and started undoing various buttons, zips and straps. He announced the undoing of what should have never been done. The same social forces that had built these resorts in the nineteenth century proved to be their undoing in the twentieth. Not only is Afrocentrism spawning grotesque maleducation, multiculturalism is exacerbating racial hostilities, undoing earlier racial progress. These 'Disinherited' were hungry for their old lands and would prove to be the undoing of the peace. The restoration of this medieval church involved undoing all the Victorian modifications. After ten minutes, an Allen key would drop into the crate and the first to escape by undoing all three bolts would win dinner for their camp. And Friedman presents herself as undoing any destruction she's caused. Loverboy is a tragedy in which the mother's fatal flaw is her love for her son, and this love leads to her undoing. Another moment of defensive inattentiveness, however, was was to prove Shrewsbury's undoing. Seated on the accubitum used at the Last Supper, the disciples are undoing their sandals in preparation for the Washing of the Feet. In fact, an overdependence on the sight gag ultimately proves to be their undoing, overshadowing the graver aspects of the painter's chosen subjects. His fatal flaw was his undoing. In a sense he defeated himself. Also submerging us, making of the fields, the trees, a cast of characters in an unnegotiable drama, ordained, iron-gloom of low light, everything at once undoing itself. So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing. The visitors' undoing was caused by a diagonal ball from the right which was nodded into the six-yard area by Ian Evatt and finished off by Campbell. But in the second stanza the so-called feminine rhymes give the poem a melancholy dying fall, undoing the confident exhortation of the first stanza. Examples from Classical Literature Another is a society woman who was given a dose of heroin and that one dose proved sufficient for her undoing. But you ought to realize that he's fettering you, undoing you utterly, seeking through egotism, to destroy your inalienable self. The Colonel sat on the packed sled, undoing with stiff fingers the twisted, frozen rope. This bigot who had once been the means of his undoing, was to be the deus ex machina. I was, too, a seeker of curious experience, and this was to prove my undoing. If only he had never seen her that haled him to his undoing! Murphy cast one despairing glance about him and slouched to his undoing. Having enmeshed him, she confidently left him to complete his own undoing. He busied himself undoing the latigo strap of the hair cinch. Then I bent over it, slowly undoing the rimpis with which it was tied, while the sweat of terror ran down by face blinding me like tears. But, in order to expiate the sin of avarice, which was my undoing, I oblige each passer-by to give me a blow. For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. He who had wrought her undoing was now on the side of the Spirit, while she remained unregenerate. Wherefore this caution against me, but for thine own undoing? He thought he shouted these words to his hands, for the undoing of the noose had been succeeded by the direst pang that he had yet experienced. He could not have chosen a more opportune time to confirm his own undoing. This was by perfidiousness to draw her into a snare to her undoing. Thus followed our undoing, for when the seas dried and the green hordes encroached upon us we could do naught but flee. The pages of history record its undoing and its accessory to crime. The nature of Napoleon's victory at Bautzen was his undoing. Show More Sentences But this foolhardy deed was his undoing, for just as the arrow left the string, the good yew bow that had never before failed him snapped in twain. This, however, as I hoped, proved the undoing of him, for he now hit out confidently at everything, and with his score at nine I beat him with my shooter. Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book. He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate gray-paper. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of undoing? Words that rhyme with undoing What is the plural of undoing? What is the adjective for undoing? What is the noun for undoing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words undogmatic undoes undocumented undocking undocked undock undomesticated undone undotted undoubtable undoubtably undoubted 7-letter Words Starting With u un und undo undoi undoin