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 is much still to unravel about how this came to be.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
• Clase walked Jared Young leading off the ninth and unraveled from there.
  — Andrew Seligman, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Researchers unraveled this mystery over the course of four years in the Choma District of southern Zambia.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• Years later, it was unraveled as nothing more than a hoax.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 24 June 2024
• Scientists are still trying to unravel the many ways heat attacks the body.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 July 2024
• Her probe would unravel fresh details of the shooting hoax mystery, turning up clues and dead ends.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• But the change of clothes did not hide the horrors the girl had gone through, and Candelario’s sob story started unraveling.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• The Aztecs easily could have unraveled in Corvallis under the strain of a big crowd and a solid team.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• The step by step models are created on the fly and are more complex than any human can unravel.
  — Jennifer J. Schulp, National Review, 2 Nov. 2023
• Fans of murder mysteries will tell you the fun in reading them is in direct proportion to the intensity unraveling on the pages.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024