How to Use unpack in a Sentence

unpack

verb
  • By the time we got to the hotel, I was too tired to unpack.
  • I unpacked my suitcase as soon as I arrived home.
  • It's been a year since I moved here and I still haven't unpacked all of my books.
  • She's good at unpacking complex concepts.
  • There’s a lot to unpack about the way our city looks and to whom.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Rather than turn away from the baggage, the movie unpacks it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
  • There’s a lot to unpack here, and plenty of blame to go around.
    Wired, 26 July 2022
  • These artists don’t use their skills to unpack the damages of the world.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • All this proves that there’s a lot to unpack with the 2022 edition of the Winter Games.
    Taylor Dutch, SELF, 2 Feb. 2022
  • There was a lot to unpack between these two in this game.
    oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The New York Times has a great story that tries to unpack what this means.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • There's plenty to unpack from the Stranger Things 4 Vol.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 May 2022
  • But there was a lot to unpack about both him and Aniston.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2021
  • There’s a lot to unpack in the here and now while moving forward.
    Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • There was a lot to unpack with that video and the sandwich itself.
    Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 July 2021
  • Stress unpacks its bags and settles in with me at the hotel.
    Dede Henley, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a lot to unpack here, and my colleague Clare Duffy is all over it.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There was a lot to unpack this past first Monday in May.
    ELLE, 5 May 2022
  • There’s a lot to unpack in just one viewing, or even six.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Apr. 2022
  • There are a lot of things to unpack in my life — more than just with my mother.
    Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
  • There is just so much to unpack in that one, brief paragraph!
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • The streamer just dropped the first five episodes of a sure-to-be chaotic season, and there's a lot to unpack.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Along with a full make out session, there's a ton to unpack in the episode preview.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 3 June 2022
  • There’s a whole lot to unpack there, and not quite enough time or candor with which to do it.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
  • To use Matt James’ favorite term, there was a lot to unpack in the aftermath of the episode.
    Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • So yeah, there was a lot happening and a lot to unpack.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • While my husband and I unpacked, the children knelt on the lawn to play with the inn’s black-and-white bunny.
    Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
  • But there was plenty more to unpack from the team’s workouts.
    Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2022
  • Melania Trump also was missing from the photo — and probably for reasons that could take a while to unpack.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • That implies 1,300 hotel rooms, packing the luggage, unpacking the luggage, putting on the makeup, taking off the makeup, doing the press conferences.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 22 Oct. 2024

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