untwine the strings.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

They started to untwine -- much quicker than the night before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanie Mills: How To Kill A Two-Headed Snake] Reference

That man was out of his truck faster than I could untwine my arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meat Truck Carnies | clusterflock] Reference

He didn't move, didn't do anything that might make Liat untwine her fingers from his.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shadow in Summer] Reference

Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in such a way as constantly to encounter him again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Five, ten, twenty meters, I struggle to untie the rope, to find the nodule that will untwine the knot, but my chafed, useless hands can grip nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

He liked the scent and the taste of her, he liked the weight of her breasts, and he wanted very much to untwine that long braid and get his fingers in her hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the World to Come]

He felt her legs untwine themselves from about his and somehow found the energy to lift himself off her and draw her against him before closing his eyes and sinking into sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Bride]

With rooted bonds which Death could not untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lilith, a romance] Reference

So knotted did the Balkan threads become, it is hard to untwine them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle] Reference

And they had parted in the hey-day of youth, young and ardent, with arms passionately loth to untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Amity] Reference

Then he seized the little reptile, and proceeded to untwine it from its constriction of Lawrence's wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor] Reference

Meanwhile, how weirdly and strangely do the threads of human life cross and twine and untwine in this world!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody] Reference

And besides, the tangled, knotted intestines of the cable drawer often do not easily untwine for the cord you need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geek.com] Reference

Fulkerson pulled first one of his blond whiskers and then the other, and twisted the end of each into a point, which he left to untwine itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference

The Mother, wrung and torn with a very agony of tenderness and pity, knelt beside her, and began with gentle strength to untwine those clutching hands from the girl's hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

There ends thy glory! there the Fates untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer] Reference

Could my death but untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile] Reference

By which thou maist untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

A true-love knot to untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

All untwine from yonder bower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry] Reference

Must untwine ere free we stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference

Nigh the knot, which did untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Must untwine, ere free we stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

It resisted our efforts to untwine it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wandl the Invader] Reference

And let the stinking Elder, grief, untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

And let the stinking-elder, grief, untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act IV. Scene II. Cymbeline] Reference

Death must be strong to untwine that clasp!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Nor may no years the mem'ries three untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

Say, can mere angry spite this knot untwine?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

Never untwine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Malfi] Reference

AH untwine from yonder bower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical ...] Reference

For nothing can untwine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon] Reference

The busy hammer sleeps, the ropes untwine.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marvell]