ravel

[ US /ˈɹævəɫ, ɹəˈvɛɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. tangle or complicate
    a ravelled story
  2. disentangle
    can you unravel the mystery?
NOUN
  1. a row of unravelled stitches
    she got a run in her stocking
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How To Use ravel In A Sentence

  • Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
  • Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
  • The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • Noel and Melva travel a great deal, allowing them to check out the marketplace, look at eating habits worldwide and find suitable equipment for the bakehouse.
  • This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
  • A recent issue of Gastroenterology reports on animal studies describing a swallowable capsule that can transmit video images as it travels through the small intestine.
  • It freewheeled down the hill and collided with the car in which Mrs Reilly and her daughter were travelling.
  • One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
  • After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
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