How to Use undo in a Sentence

undo

verb
Definition of undonext
Synonyms for undonext
  • 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 Oct. 2024
  • Remember that some things can be done or said, but they cannot be undone.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Sometimes no amount of change can undo the damage that already was done.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2022
  • What seemed over and done just seven months before was now undone.
    — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The Nuggets allowed 47 points in the second quarter alone to undo their clinical start.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Everything Napier believed for months on end came undone in a few weeks in September.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024

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