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Example sentences for "raveled"

Lexicographically close words:
ravages; ravaging; rave; raved; ravel; ravelin; raveling; ravelings; ravelins; ravelled
  1. And, spangled with the shine and shade, I see the rivers raveled out In strands of silver, slowly fade In threads of light along the glade Where truant roses hide and pout.

  2. I have ripped up the rainbow and raveled the ends When the sun and myself were particular friends.

  3. Where love feasts crowned, and basks in such a glare As hearts of suns burn, in thine eyes and hair, Unutterable with raveled fires that cheat The ardent clay of me and make me air.

  4. Grandmother has raveled it out several times because I dropped stitches.

  5. Grandmother is teaching me how to knit some mittens now, but if I ever finish them it will be through much tribulation, the way they have to be raveled out and commenced over again.

  6. Next time I looked, the five Boches, or six, whichever it was, had all been raveled out by the wind.

  7. Sometimes I skirted them so closely that the current of air from my propeller raveled out fragments of shining vapor, which streamed into the clear spaces like wisps of filmy silk.

  8. She was a good deal raveled out, but there was plenty of fun in her yet, after all.

  9. What glory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests has he not untied Waller.

  10. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care.

  11. The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses!

  12. If the strips are raveled at all, it should be at least for a third of an inch, as otherwise the rug would possess simply a rough and not a napped surface.

  13. The raveled waste can often be used as filling for the ends of rugs if it is wound as it is pulled from the carpet rags.

  14. I am here at work now for a fortnight to spin some single cord out of my thousand and one strands of every color and texture that lie raveled around me in old snarls.

  15. Even the little Teacher, Ruth MacLaurin, had a physique that was embroidered if not darned across its raveled places.

  16. It ripped the Old Mother close at her waist-line, and raveled her out on the floor like a fluff of gray yarn.

  17. She would be glad to "knit up Care's raveled sleeve," or the hose for a fire-company.

  18. Those silken strands of raveled midnight wove Into a Cupid's mesh, a net of love!

  19. Sidenote: Carpet ravelings] Carpet ravelings may be obtained from the carpet stores, or pieces of carpet can be raveled by the children.

  20. As this peculiar tone of blue could not be obtained in carpet ravelings, an eighth of a yard of terry was raveled for the purpose.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raveled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.