How to Use unravel in a Sentence

unravel

verb

• Their plans unraveled when she lost her job.
• I feel like my life is unraveling.
• His frequent absences from home caused his marriage to unravel.
• Scientists are still unraveling the secrets of DNA.
• But, over the course of the past five months, the group has begun to unravel.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• There's still a lot left to unravel in the Thread space.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
• There is much still to unravel about how this came to be.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
• The horn blows, and both teams start attempting to unravel the ropes.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 July 2022
• Clase walked Jared Young leading off the ninth and unraveled from there.
  — Andrew Seligman, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2023
• In the morning, unravel the braids and gently finger-comb through the strands.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2022
• Toward the end of part one, there are a few plot twists that begin to unravel.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 11 Feb. 2023
• Younès sets out to unravel the mystery of what has happened to his friend.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
• The sisters know their life in the U.S. could unravel at any moment.
  — Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
• Alone with the twins in her London flat, Sheila unravelled.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• The Timbers, who had played even up to that point, appeared ready to unravel.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
• The two retrace his steps to try and unravel the circumstances of his death.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024
• The reasons for the split were still a mystery but how was I supposed to unravel that?
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2022
• In the days that followed, their lives began to unravel.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 22 Jan. 2023
• Through Nechaev, the player unravels the mystery of why the robots have gone on a killing spree.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Comstock unraveled the bundle, which turned out to be rocks wrapped in a T-shirt with wire tied around it.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 7 June 2024
• Cassie turned forward and stared out the windshield to the road unraveling among the shadows ahead.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• The discovery sent Lamb on a half-decade quest to unravel the mystery of the missing bear toes.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• And that meant unraveling the rhymes and coming up with new ones.
  — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• Instead, the roller should be removed from the bottom, ensuring the ends are the first part to be unraveled.
  — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 16 May 2024
• This sends Giovanna on a quest to meet Vittoria—and to unravel the web of lies around her.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• But as the decade came to a close, ties between both the Beatles and the Harrisons continued to unravel.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• Most of the time, a murder mystery will get tied up in a bow, and mysteries of the heart and oneself are much harder to unravel.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
• And the story of what happened to her sister began to unravel.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
• As he’s forced to go on the run in a desperate fight to clear his name and unravel a global conspiracy, Muncie finds unlikely allies against the corrupt billionaire ultimately pulling the strings.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2024
• One expert says the trade fight could unravel the growing international cooperation targeting drug traffickers in China and Mexico.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024