How to Use unspool in a Sentence

unspool

verb

• And for the fourth time ever, the show will unspool a two-part episode in the fall.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 July 2021
• The roll of twine goes into the canister with the thread unspooling through one of the big holes in the lid.
  — Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
• This movie ended with the film reel unspooling all over the floor.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 26 July 2017
• As the decades have unspooled, the cultural power of the disks has only grown.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
• Texas National Guard troops unspool razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Kershaw unspooled a curve that dove toward the tops of Descalso’s shoes.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Bd unspools the skin's proteins and feasts on the resulting spaghetti of amino acids.
  — Matthew Fisher, National Geographic, 10 May 2018
• My life was coming apart, unspooling with great speed, like kite string on a gusty day.
  — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2017
• Roth also didn't want to make the type of film that would unspool in a high school social studies class, putting all the students to sleep.
  — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• The crackling synth-heavy production made the past come rushing back until all the tape had unspooled and the deck clicked off.
  — Paul Schrodt, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• The tragedy unspools one awful image at a time: the wheel of a bike, spinning; a boot thrown off by the force of impact; a red stain pooling across the white snow.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2018
• In one clearing, a gargoyle’s unspooled tongue made a children’s slide.
  — Henry Wismayer, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
• In a crisis, E-6 planes would get airborne and then unspool a wire antenna just over 5 miles long.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
• The real treasures, though, are the game’s narrative vignettes, which unspool with force and brio.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
• But an outsider’s breath is taken away by the beauty of the landscape unspooling around San Juan Bautista.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• The trail unspools through diverse landscapes of desert, mountain, canyon and forest.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• The roll of paper will slowly unspool as writers type on the typewriter.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 12 May 2017
• Like the Fates pinching the thread of life, a robotic arm unspooled a thin copper wire for a self-assembling satellite dish.
  — Wired, 11 Sep. 2019
• As the story unspooled Wednesday night and Thursday, others weighed in.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• The companion star, buffeted by winds from the pulsar, unspools a long tail of plasma like a comet’s.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• But the cause of unspooling not merely the ACA, but a good part of the overall American healthcare system, went rolling along.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Jan. 2017
• With that in mind, get ready to unspool this mystery that includes a questionable photo, a fake tattoo, and a farm.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 May 2020
• The festival, running through May 27, will unspool against the backdrop of labor unrest on both sides of the Atlantic.
  — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
• Larry spent two hours with me on tape, unspooling both his early life with Lauren, as well as her death.
  — Lyz Lenz, Longreads, 18 May 2017
• News about the jail unspooled over months, as county officials grappled with the problems and lawsuits were filed.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
• The language seems designed to unspool all the various layers of this moment.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
• My mother and sister were fascinated by the lurid tale that unspooled in the following years (and decades).
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 8 July 2019
• As my long career unspooled, of course, Iran went from a U.S. ally to an implacable foe.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 9 Dec. 2019
• Thinking of those images unspooling in the dark of a cave brings to mind many metaphors, among them intimations of modern movies.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2019
• Like all the best soap operas, the stories continue to unspool — and certainly show no signs of slowing down any time soon.
  — Steve Clarke, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024