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Example sentences for "unraveling"

Lexicographically close words:
unquietly; unquietness; unratified; unravel; unraveled; unravelled; unravelling; unravelment; unravels; unreachable
  1. Determined to do his utmost toward solution of all difficulties hindering unraveling of this web, he will visit London and talk over the whole matter with head of detective bureau.

  2. Why employ his slender thread of life in unraveling this intricate web.

  3. To Esther he said: "It is now clear to me that Oswald's continued absence from England and India is requisite to the unraveling of that subtly interwoven web.

  4. There is no telling how much such information, promptly communicated, might have affected plans of these sleuths in unraveling such complicated villainies.

  5. Are not my absence and supposed death necessary to the unraveling of this intricate plot?

  6. She was chastity embodied; all her hours were spent in reciting Holy Writ, or expounding the Texts, or unraveling the most complex of spiritual themes, or spreading abroad the sweet savors of God.

  7. However, if Timson can be of service to us in unraveling the Whitmore mystery, we might arrange with the Federal authorities to grant him immunity.

  8. The long interview with Collins, even the intervention of Luckstone, had brought him closer to the final unraveling of the absorbing mystery that had developed so many amazing complications.

  9. But the name of Ortega, brought back by Fragoso, and which was the signature of the document, had afforded the means of unraveling the cryptogram, thanks to the sagacity of Judge Jarriquez.

  10. But if Araujo had no map to guide him, his experience served him more surely, and it was wonderful to see him unraveling the chaos, without ever turning aside from the main river.

  11. The unraveling and resolution of the difficulties that are met with in the execution of the design are the end of an action.

  12. The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

  13. The next story on the murder would be concerned with the unraveling of the mystery, thus: | The preliminary inquiry yesterday by | |Coroner John F.

  14. The stories which might follow the unraveling of the mystery surrounding the fictitious death of the grocer, mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, would be second-day murder stories.

  15. Piece-dyed fabrics may be distinguished from yarn-dyed fabrics by unraveling threads of each kind.

  16. The average number of yarn may be found without unraveling the fabric, and is the quotient of the total thread length, by the weight in the proportion of 840 yd.

  17. In a novel of mere action and adventure, a lower order of fiction, where all the interest centres in the unraveling of a plot, of course this does not so much matter.

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

  19. The shout that went up from the girls and boys who had been watching the unraveling process brought the crowd from the first automobile back, too.

  20. How delightful it is to see this knitting and unraveling of the social fabric year after year!

  21. That first, and the unraveling of this puzzle thereafter.

  22. There was within me a conviction that a moment would arrive when it would take some action toward the unraveling of the mystery, but in what shape this action would display itself was to me unfathomable.

  23. His Grace of Athol was himself in the thick of it all.

  24. So Cynthia began at the beginning and told how they had first found their way in, and had then become interested in unraveling the mystery of the old house.

  25. The ingenuity of the author obviously lies in his invention of a web which seemingly cannot be unraveled and which nevertheless one of the characters of the tale, Legrand or Dupin, succeeds in unraveling at last.

  26. Attention is centered on the unraveling of the tangled skein rather than on the knot itself.

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

  28. The guy who came by to open the store was vaguely familiar to Alfred, a Kensington stalwart of about forty, whose thrifted slacks and unraveling sweater weren't hip so much as they were just plain old down and out.

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


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