unspool

1 No—Josie’s father bent down to look more closely—the back of the drawer had unspooled into a charming spiral of stairs.

2 The festival, running through May 27, will unspool against the backdrop of labor unrest on both sides of the Atlantic.

3 Exhaustive but not exhausting, the play unspools hundreds upon hundreds of biographical details, hurtling through history at a pace that elevates the material beyond rote recitation of fact.

4 But grasping some of Cannes’ quirks and traditions can help you understand just what is unspooling in the south of France and what, exactly, a Palm Dog is.

5 Last summer, Imax CEO Rich Gelfond touched down in the German city for a conference of theater owners, looking to hype the blockbusters that were about to unspool on the company’s football-field-sized screens.

6 She felt a bit more of the tall woman’s magic unspool and draw toward her.

7 If the movers have bothered to look upward, I can't tell, because as soon as I got to this landing, I unspooled the carpet, using it to make a solid floor on the fire escape.

8 I try not to let my mind unspool regarding his potential actions.

9 Behind the man unspools the alley and then the hanging curtain of ivy and then the city.

10 I squat and, despite hands that are sweaty and shaking, unspool the ring from the zipper.

11 At first, the chaplain thought the young man was still caught in disbelief, still holding on to foolish hope that time could unspool and the body beside him could still be revived.

12 The claim of responsibility by the Islamic State did little to temper the Kremlin’s narrative, which has unspooled in a torrent of unsupported accusations and baseless, even fanciful conspiracy theories spread across social media.

13 The sky tumbled overhead, unspooling into a reflection of fireworks on water and rising white buildings that appeared as distant and inaccessible as the medieval Neamt Citadel.

14 My own reflection, unspooled and distorted in the dark liquid, was a stranger to me.

15 Texas National Guard troops unspool razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande.

16 The findings leapt into the public consciousness in 2020 when the Los Angeles Times published the first in a series of expose?s unspooling the region's toxic legacy of offshore dumping.

17 A bigger part of me knows this is my destiny, what thirteen years of torture have prepared me for, like my entire, tense childhood can be unspooled.

18 The conversation between the two had seemed, sometimes, as though it would never end; there were no conclusions, only more threads to unspool.

19 A steamship appears, and up on deck a lifeboat is curiously rocking; but then the boat docks, stern first, and we’re up on dry land again, where the film unspools, back at the beginning .

20 Somehow our quest to find the ultimate spot became more expansive, unspooling into awe for this place in its entirety.

1 展开

open spread evolution uncurl unroll unreel unswathe outreach outspread outstretch untuck develop break expand stretch deploy unfold unwind unwrap unfurl splay open out

2 退绕

unreel

3 伸直

uncurl unbend

4 放松

laid-back cool loose downbeat disport let-up rest distraction veer pay untie unhitch unloose untack unbrace give ease relax slack unwind remit unbend unclench unkink slack off

5 放映

screening showing show screen run