How to Use undo in a Sentence

undo

verb

• You can't undo the past.
• The damage cannot be undone.
• He was undone by greed.
• Pass over your hair with a brush, this time starting at the scalp, to undo the finest knots.
  — Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Just chop the sleeves at the hem, undo a few buttons, and pile on the gold jewelry.
  — Ann Wang, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
• Now, there is no time machine to go back in time to undo those things.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
• Even if a deal is reached, researchers say some of the damage will be hard to undo.
  — Bytania Rabesandratana, science.org, 28 Feb. 2023
• For me, there is no funk that can’t be undone by a lush bathrobe, a musky candle, and a face mask.
  — Channing Smith, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
• The Fifth Circuit decision does not undo the Supreme Court's move to place the law on hold.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
• But that would risk undoing Labour’s work in recent years to woo the City.
  — Samuel Burke, Fortune Europe, 29 Oct. 2024
• Justin, 30, wore a Marine Serre shirt with the buttons undone.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• Some of the work of the New Dealers and the Japanese liberals was undone.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Disney sued in federal court and asked for the changes to be undone.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• The Court may finally undo the evil of 1973 this summer.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 22 Jan. 2022
• This could undo many years of progress in protecting our right to breathe clean, smoke-free air.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
• And, so, when there is a difference in leadership of the House there won’t be any way to undo it.
  — Margaret M. Russell, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2022
• But even a bit of late-season luck wouldn’t undo the hardship of the growing season.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
• The top few buttons of his shirt are undone, over a white undershirt.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
• Still, there was a task left yet undone; to reach out personally and thank the men who had saved him.
  — David Murray, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• The first mega star of the modern era, she was isolated, hounded and, for a time, undone by fame.
  — Marisa Guthrie, WWD, 2 Aug. 2024
• The Electoral Count Act is not a license to undo an election.
  — courant.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• And that’s when Evert delivered a piece of news that undid Navratilova.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• Remember that some things can be done or said, but they cannot be undone.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2024
• Each time, Fredrick Mitchel, 58, pulled out Narcan, the medicine that can undo an opioid overdose, and tried to save a life.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 28 May 2022
• Remember that some things can be done or said, but they cannot be undone.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
• Remember that some things can be done or said, but they cannot be undone.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
• What seemed over and done just seven months before was now undone.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• The sleeves of Brady’s shirt were rolled to the former athlete’s elbows, while the top button of his collar was undone.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Aug. 2024
• His role, as a flawed genius who suffers for his art but is undone by his hubris, his drug addiction and the cutoff of his wealthy employer’s patronage, is harrowing.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
• These three actions would be relatively simple—and difficult to undo.
  — Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024