How to Use unleash in a Sentence

unleash

verb
  • The storm unleashed its fury.
  • The editorial unleashed a torrent of angry responses.
  • But the orcs have some tricks up their sleeve, and unleash their warg.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The echoes come back and inspire the rest of us to unleash our own voices.
    Rachel Walker, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The lamp gently melts candle wax to unleash the scent in your home.
    Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The lamp gently melts candle wax to unleash the scent in your home.
    Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The sinking of the Moskva may push Vladimir Putin to unleash a deeper fury on the East.
    ABC News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • When the Pharaoh refused Moses, God unleashed 10 plagues on the Egyptians.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 24 Mar. 2023
  • On a 3-2 pitch, Ohtani unleashed a slider that Trout whiffed on.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And to stop The 60 from unleashing unholy hell on the planet.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The Heat then unleashed a 13-0 stampede to start the second quarter.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The passage of the aid package unleashed a fresh wave of fury among hard-liners.
    Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
  • It’s been years in the making for Dre and Snoop to reconnect and unleash a joint project.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As the video ends, the officers unleash a hail of bullets.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
  • Big and bold is just your speed this month, so unleash that Pisces power!
    The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Now freed from his tomb, Black Adam is ready to unleash his form of justice on the modern world.
    Carson Burton, Variety, 23 July 2022
  • The Mavericks unleashed a late run to cut the score to one possession — again.
    Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • At my signal, unleash hell and take the following quiz to find out.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Video shows part of the train trestle on the bridge collapsed while the vessel also unleashed an oil spill.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 17 May 2024
  • But even now, the forces that Navalny unleashed are unlikely to go away.
    Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The shift away from the office unleashed a demand for services and hardware.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • The explosions unleashed by supernovas are among the strongest known in the world.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That was not the case, but the report unleashed wild rumors across Hollywood.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Or, that at the very least, the Collider is one of the seven seals of the apocalypse (which will also unleash hell on Earth).
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But Xi managed to unleash his own perfect storm at home.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The Delta variant was spreading, and Omicron, which would unleash a fresh wave of death and disease, lay ahead.
    Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • This was always Johnson’s plan — stay within the top three throughout the race and unleash her last gear.
    oregonlive, 25 June 2022
  • Unable to swing freely and unable to unleash that nearly 140 m.p.h.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 July 2022
  • Mother Nature decided Ohio needed one for the road as the state bids farewell to 2024, unleashing one more tornado to make Ohio's record year for twisters even worse.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The verbal glove slap unleashed a back-and-forth war of words via diss track, which, in retrospect, was never going to go Drake's way – Lamar, after all, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist.
    Rebecca Messina, The Week Uk, theweek, 30 Dec. 2024

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