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
• The Timbers, who had played even up to that point, appeared ready to unravel.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Researchers unraveled this mystery over the course of four years in the Choma District of southern Zambia.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• 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
• People sense that things are unraveling here and abroad.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Regardless, things unraveled on Friday when the Twins broke into the Rangers’ bullpen.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Nettle is a girl who was cursed to be a heron until Kellen unraveled her back into her human form.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• His sister and mentors said his life appeared to unravel from there.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• Each company’s data estate is like a ball of yarn that needs to be unraveled.
  — Ben Debow, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The key to unraveling this mystery lies in the author’s identity.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• And did anything unravel while filming this season that was an aha-moment for you?
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
• What if Deion Sanders brought Primetime to Colorado before the conference was on the cusp of unraveling?
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• At the home stretch of his debut season, Pitino and the Red Storm are looking up at some of the top programs in the country while watching their season unravel at the seams.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Besides her huge party where everything was unraveling, this has got to be one of the scariest days of her life.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024