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Example sentences for "unrolling"

Lexicographically close words:
unrivaled; unrivalled; unroasted; unroll; unrolled; unrolls; unromantic; unroofed; unroofing; unruffled
  1. What a study to a spirit able to watch the unrolling of the two side by side!

  2. Tumbling this out and unrolling it, the Captain displayed a pair of trousers and boots in one piece attached to something like an oval life-buoy.

  3. After unrolling bundle after bundle, I came at last to the centre, and found that it contained nothing whatever but this book, wrapped up in an old cotton pocket-handkerchief.

  4. No objection was raised by the authorities concerned in the discoveries,--and I, who had never witnessed the unrolling of a mummy before, watched the process with great interest and curiosity.

  5. Very reluctantly she took it,--and slowly unrolling it, began to read.

  6. He commences his attempt of unrolling the Papyri.

  7. Only one method, and that a simple and mechanical, though a highly ingenious one, had been adopted for unrolling the MSS.

  8. Sir Humphry Davy suggests a chemical method for unrolling the ancient Papyri.

  9. But we had too grave a task before us to be swayed by external manifestations: the unrolling of the mummy began.

  10. The unrolling of the mummy cat had prepared me somewhat for it; but this was so much larger, and so infinitely more elaborate, that it seemed a different thing.

  11. As the unrolling went on, the wrappings became finer, and the smell less laden with bitumen, but more pungent.

  12. I came back and took her hand and stroked it as I answered: "I shall come back when the unrolling is over!

  13. Unrolling the cloth of his turban he spread it over her person, while his own breast was her pillow.

  14. Unrolling the bundle, it proved to be a rich, but plain, dress, donated from a neighboring castle.

  15. There does not seem to be a well formed annulus, the veil only being present in a rather young stage, as the inrolled margin of the pileus is unrolling from the surface of the stem.

  16. I am dreadfully hungry; nothing gives me such an appetite as unrolling mummies; it involves so much intellectual wear and tear, in addition to the physical labour.

  17. It was his fortune, as it happened, to assist in unrolling the body of one possessing peculiar interest.

  18. He has assisted in unrolling some, and all had straight, long hair.

  19. The shooting-star is one of our prettiest spring flowers, which arrives a little before the baby-eyes and just as the brakes are unrolling their green crosiers.

  20. When spring is at its height, this charming little Iris may be found upon sunny, open hillsides among the unrolling crosiers of the common brake.

  21. The day had no more than dawned when Tommy was awake, unrolling herself, but taking the precaution to see where the unrolling would land her.

  22. This is fable or allegory too;" and, unrolling another sheet of paper, Maggie read aloud her famous poem, which had been pronounced a great success by both Bessie and Belle.

  23. Lily, unrolling the parcel and holding up the skirt.

  24. When he was alone in the tile-floored sleeping room upstairs, unrolling his blankets and arranging his shaving things, he looked out of the window and watched her where she sat sewing under the cherry tree.

  25. Un héritage des Boches," he explained unrolling it upon the grass.

  26. The movement it starts is sometimes turned aside, sometimes divided, always opposed; and the evolution of the organized world is the unrolling of this conflict.

  27. She gestures as if she were unrolling a bandage.

  28. Nature's a grand, rich, endless thing, always unrolling her scroll with writings that seem new on it.

  29. Perhaps it means only the unrolling of the scroll.

  30. Mabel, picking up a small tightly crumpled ball and unrolling it gingerly.

  31. The story is, therefore, clear and well-connected and so logical in its results that it has about it a finality suggesting the unrolling of the inevitable.

  32. The unrolling of these dramatic events was the signal for the greatest subterranean activity on the part of the Japanese, who were now everywhere seen rubbing their hands and congratulating themselves on the course history was taking.

  33. In such cold lines is the story of this tragedy unrolling itself to its close.

  34. Thus he made up his mind to follow the unrolling of the scroll.

  35. I don't know yet; but I am willing to wait for the unrolling of the scroll.

  36. He felt ashamed of himself; his personality appeared to be unrolling itself before him, and he surveyed himself with the eyes of a judge.

  37. Then he began unrolling the serious part of his harangue, so that he himself, was also greatly affected.

  38. Tchernoff bemoaned the great suffering produced by the catastrophe, the thousands and thousands of domestic tragedies that were unrolling at that moment.

  39. When one column was read, another was exposed to view by unrolling it from the end in the left hand, while the former was hidden from view by rolling up the end grasped by the right band.

  40. The second was the unrolling of portions of the panorama as they were taken out of the boxes, fastened together, and attached to the rollers.

  41. This was true, as both Tiffles and Patching, anticipating some such question, had stepped over the canvas back and forth, in rolling and unrolling it, several times.

  42. My father took the one at the head, and also another much smaller, springing from the same point as his, which he had caused to be placed there, and unrolling it, put it into my hand.


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