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Definition of unravel:

  • (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
  • (verb) disentangle
  • (verb) become undone; "the sweater unraveled"

Sentence Examples:

Well, time must unravel the snarl.

This is a difficult skein to unravel.

Immortality unravels the otherwise inscrutable mystery.

The clew to unravel this old mystery?

How the intricacies unravel, and simplicity appears!

His only solicitude was to unravel the plot.

It seems impossible now to unravel this skein.

A little time will unravel the tangled skein.

You have unraveled the tangled skein of eternal life.

Unravels some of Lovelace's plots; and detects his forgeries.

Few mysteries are too deep for her sagacity to unravel.

This is a weighty problem for future psychologists to unravel.

A considerable time elapsed before we could unravel the mystery.

Why not unravel this web of connivance with dispatch?

It must have snagged on the big bolt and unraveled.

"The Sphinx isn't likely to offer to unravel the mystery."

Let us begin to unravel the skein from the start.

I've plaited the lash wrong, and must unravel it again.'

Musing in his library, Hardin's clear head unravels this intrigue.

Browne's eccentricities of style to spend time trying to unravel them.

I was obliged to search the Scriptures to unravel the enigma.

He could not unravel the warp and woof of his life.

I wish I could unravel the mystery of my unknown assailant!

And the mystery of that unhappy brig none can ever unravel.

Then we will pry into the mystery until we unravel it.

Stone, who had been vainly trying to unravel a silken tangle.

What the fingers may not unravel, the knife can sever.

She failed to unravel even a little strand of the tangled skein.

Who can unravel the masks within masks of a cunning egotism?

She unraveled one sock and stuffed the yarn in her ears.

Henri must unravel the rest; he has a passion for hieroglyphics.

And that was a skein even fairies would find hard to unravel.

A motley crowd were huddled around him trying to unravel the mystery.

You feel it your duty to unravel the secret of the percussion cap?

He can unravel any combination, penetrate any disguise, surmount any obstacle.

This unravels the Mystery of Millions being enslaved by the few!

Durant vainly tried to unravel the possible motives for her confidence.

Then suddenly the mind grows lucid, imagination glows, the snarl unravels.

To read all secrets, and unravel the tangled skein of human destiny!

The man drooped dejectedly as he tried to unravel this fresh tangle.

Its mysteries have cost even greater labor to unravel than hieroglyphics themselves.

Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events?

I never begin to unravel a sock at the top or the middle.

Strenuous, untiring efforts for years have been made to unravel this Lanier web.

An attempt to unravel the tangled threads of Indian faith must be made.

It took a better lawyer than you, Berk Matthews, to unravel that snarl.

It is like a tangled skein of thread I am trying in vain to unravel.

There was an indefinite muttering in the room that Joan could not unravel.

The more he tried to unravel its meaning, the more it got entangled.

The distance seemed to unravel before his feet, lengthening like a magic carpet.

He is a being shrouded in mystery, and I shall endeavor to unravel it.

The rules of experimental inquiry are the contrivances for unraveling the web.

Ever thicker, ever more entangled became the coil; it seemed impossible to unravel it.

Intently, they concentrated on the astonishing thought unraveling in the creature's brain.

If you were to concoct a lie it would take ten angels to unravel it!

"Can our Solicitude alter the course, or unravel the intricacy, of human events?"

I prefer to allow events as supplied by others to unravel the skein.

There was no time to unravel his perplexities and lay any definite plan.

Altogether the skein was too tangled for us to attempt to unravel it.

Let us unravel if you please this skein of red worsted so ingeniously tangled.

He had still more ado to unravel his own tangle of thought and emotion.

Who am I that I should seek to unravel the mysterious intricacies of sex?

Even if he steals the peacock, we have the drawing to unravel the problem.

As Keith's brow puckered in the effort to unravel the mystery, she nodded.

Moreover, I beg your pardon, insomuch as I have been slow to unravel your meaning.

The point is that the web should be eternally remade and eternally unraveled.

I have a skein to unravel, and cannot find out an end to commence with.

One night he made a clumsy attempt to unravel the title of a French book.

It is in vain to attempt to unravel the intricacies of the diplomacy which ensued.

My nerves are all snarled up, and only a walk will unravel them.

She looked glumly at the road unraveling before them, gray and hissing with rain.

"As you have failed through lack of experience, I shall attempt to unravel this skein."

As it was, he got away before the snarl of steers had entirely unraveled itself.

I am sick of life; the past is a tangled skein which I cannot unravel.

Their method of life is like the unraveling of a snarled skein from the middle.

I call him Ravelings, for he is just like a spool of white silk unraveled.

I described to her my efforts to unravel the cipher which I repeated to her.

He even lagged in his avowed intention to unravel the mystery or die in the attempt.

Others saw the unraveling yarn, and joined Bobby and the twins in hilarious laughter.

Roberts out of her perplexity, and unravel the tangled threads of Dorothy's arithmetical inaccuracies.

The skeins when unraveled must make clear everything as was promised at the beginning.

It was like the sound a wounded bird makes with his dry, unraveled pinions.

Squire Harrington was especially active, and left no stone unturned to unravel the mystery.

That ball he presently unraveled to reread the telegram; he studied it word by word.

Subtlety used in a certain way unravels confusion, in a certain other way produces it.

When will come the goal Riddle I may not unravel Cease to vex my soul.

They were a thin skein of threads of white vapor which seemed to unravel in nothingness.

He was wearing wool trousers and a cable-knit sweater that was unraveling at the elbows.

We have a tangled skein to unravel, and we have got to do some pretty smart work.

He deplored his own presumption in assuming that he could unravel such a mystery entirely.

By this time French explorers were pressing forward to unravel the mystery of the interior.

The weasel could outrun him, and with his unerring nose unravel any tangle of tunnels.

These papers enable us partly to unravel a coil which, without them, no ingenuity could disentangle.

Can you unravel the mystery surrounding the mummy of this Queen who is not a Queen?

There was a hitch in the plot that she could best unravel in the silence.

He did more to unravel African mysteries and settle geographic problems than any other explorer.

Easy at some places, it is by no means child's play at others to unravel its crevasses.

It is a curious web to unravel, a riddle to solve, a problem at once stimulating and baffling.

Detectives were at once set to work to unravel the iniquity, but all efforts proved unavailing.

How might she unravel this tangled skein and float to weal upon this sea of death?