How To Use Unfurl In A Sentence

As it was said, a flagpole had a horizontal slat on the top so that it could be possible to unfurl the flag wide.
Meanwhile the red ribbon was slowly unfurling like a red cloud and then a crimson sea.
I slow the line as it zips through my left hand and the leader begins to unfurl. Times, Sunday Times
She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE

We are going to get out there and we are going to unfurl our umbrellas and eat our cupcakes in the rain. The Sun
But the action really worth watching will unfurl where delegates and lobbyists come face to face with actual unmasked New Yorkers, who will demand accountability.
I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade. How I Found Livingstone
A Palestinian flag was unfurled at the site, and some of the demonstrators threw firecrackers at the building. Egypt to withdraw ambassador to Israel over ambush
It was not enough to fill the sail, and it was raised soon after it was unfurled, and the heaving on the oars continued.
The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown. Within a Budding Grove
The Olympic testing programme has been unfurling with a quiet precision and understated efficiency since May, such that the number of events that have already taken place, from modern pentathlon to mountain biking, would probably surprise you apparently there was even a trial of Wimbledon as the Olympic tennis venue – it was called the All England Championships and won by a Novak Djokovic. Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John
We pass the shoe market, where hundreds of shoes hang from the ceilings on strings; the purse market, hanging by purse strings; the music mart, where the rich interdental consonants of Arabic songs consume the air; the basket bazaar; a merchant unfurling a yo-yo. Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
Tom, if you have to ask why there is a roll of toilet paper unfurled on Washington Street, obviously you don't have a clue.
My eyelids slowly opened as though unfurling to a new day, and I found myself gazing into his eyes.
Dusty flags are again unfurled. Christianity Today
climbed aloft to unfurl the sail
In this BBC news video, a reporter with all the necessary documentation tries to visit Tiananmen Square with a cameraperson, only to find himself surrounded by umbrella-wielding goons who use their unfurled bumbershoots to block every shot the camera-person tries to catch. Boing Boing
While the Jewish DPs strove to rebuild their shattered lives and played a critical role in the struggle to establish the State of Israel, the non-Jewish DPs had no clear ideological or other mission other than to exist while waiting, mostly passively, for the next chapter of their lives to unfurl. Menachem Rosensaft: Review: The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War
The midge is an ephemeral 2-3 mm insect whose larva induces a gall on young unfurled S. viminalis leaves.
When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
Circulation areas are used in a limited way for display, especially for a few large iconic objects, such as a 'couta boat complete with unfurled sail at the front of the building.
During this brief exchange of words, Klauss had ventured over to the crumpled picture and unfurled it.
Peel 8 banana shallots, slice them in half and unfurl the layers. Times, Sunday Times
Up in the stands a banner was unfurled with the same tribute. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, Will's prose is more orotund and the moral is more delicately unfurled.
Mangold's curled figure proves a curiously allusive and vulnerable emblem as it unfurls across one, two or three panels, nearing but never quite touching the edges of the support.
Farms unfurled to the Bays of Pollenca and Alcudia as one last surge of Sierra forked into capes Pinar and Formentor.
A flash-frozen flag of Iberico ham was allowed to thaw at the table and then unfurled and draped blanketlike over a teepee of roasted salsify and a puddle of hazelnut cream, the ham melting into the hot fluted bowl just slightly before the head waiter drizzled it with smoked paprika oil. Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
Yet each day thousands of Chinese wait for hours to watch the national flag being unfurled. Times, Sunday Times
Up in the stands a banner was unfurled with the same tribute. Times, Sunday Times
She'd take the latter gratefully, then unfurl the cone flat onto the table in front of her, and then barf all over it.
We unfurl the headsail and streak across the World Sailing Speed Record Council's start line 42 seconds after the stroke of midnight.
Flag fever is unfurling across Manchester as the city is swept up on a wave of World Cup and Jubilee celebrations.
These bats roost, head-up, inside the smooth tubes formed as young banana or heliconia leaves unfurl.
Trim and quarter the fennel lengthways, not worrying if a few leaves unfurl. Times, Sunday Times
The sail were loosed and reefed, furled and unfurled, braces manned, halyards tested.
It began when a band struck up the opening hymn and a huge screen unfurled with a little bouncy ball popping across the words so everyone could sing along.
She hides her face with a raised and unfurled fan. Berthe Morisot
One minute he's running up to the bow to check a sail is properly unfurled. Times, Sunday Times
Then Barbara Bush is called in, and as she straddles Rush's face and looses the girdle, her two labia "unfurl" and reach "halfway down to her knees, like some big ball-less scrotum" ... Aimless, aimless
Somewhere inside my chest, a sail was unfurling.
The warm lyricism of the music unfurled anew in waves of lush orchestral sound.
The hooded blue eyes unfurl, revealing beneath the lids an unquenched intensity.
One year ago we brought you the Wall House, an elegant small-scale home that challenges the concept of walls with its delaminated construction and a flexible shell that invokes a sky-blown kite or a pristinely unfurled sail. WALL HOUSE: Build Your Own With Customizable Kit! | Inhabitat
The crew bunks in a decaying hotel with infinitely unfurling tenebrous corridors.
Leaves had unfurled , goldfinches had arrived at the feeder and daffodils were fighting their way heavenward.
Protesters managed to dodge an encampment of police to unfurl a long banner calling for universal suffrage. Times, Sunday Times
A few pearls roll off, unfurling some genuinely glistening sounds for the waning summer days.
She hides her face with a raised and unfurled fan. Berthe Morisot
Each morning she unfurls her American flag and attaches it to the stand on the outside wall of her home.
Up in the stands a banner was unfurled with the same tribute. Times, Sunday Times
Women, it is commonly believed, sewed the rebel flag that was unfurled on Bakery Hill as a symbol of united resistance.
Meanwhile at home, the first daffs were reluctantly unfurling, and half my scillas haven't come out yet.
He unfurls a magnificent, painterly canvas, on which 1846 New York is reimagined as a hyperreal wild west of the east.
Yet each day thousands of Chinese wait for hours to watch the national flag being unfurled. Times, Sunday Times
From there I was in the rigging, getting into the crow's nest, keeping my eye to the lens as I was inches away from the unfurling of a 400 square foot main sail 80 feet above the waterline -- and pointing the glass at the crew as they went about their seagoing tasks. Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel
The dahabiyeh -- her very name, the _Loulia_, has a gentle, seductive, cooing sound -- drifts broadside to the current with furled sails, or glides smoothly on before an amiable north wind with sails unfurled. The Spell of Egypt
She knotted her jacket's sleeves around her waist and from a pocket she unfurled a roll of balloons.
Once unfurled, the fronds produce a more bitter, unappetizing flavor.
Southend today unfurled the flag of success as its beaches were named among the best in Europe.
Protesters managed to dodge an encampment of police to unfurl a long banner calling for universal suffrage. Times, Sunday Times
This is not to say that Conn's history wanders from its purpose -- to unfurl the many writers producing work in the 1930s. Joe Woodward: Occup(ied) America: A Literary History
This Asian-style concoction melds multilayered tastes, unfurling hints of cardamom, cloves and anise on the tongue.
With sails unfurled, Cosmos 1 will be bright enough to be easily visible to the naked eye.
Covers were dragged across courts, umbrellas and hooded capes unfurled, and Britain reminded itself that there is remains one sport – uncomplaining stoicism – at which it is the undisputed world champion. Wimbledon day one: champagne, umbrellas and British hopes dashed
County flags are unfurled and plans are made for the journey to the ‘match’.
He broke through for his first wicket of the match in his 24th over of the innings, unfurling an overpitched delivery to the young left-hander.
The tea keeps better than conventional green teas; the leaves unfurl when the tea is brewed. The East India Company Book of Tea
Peel 8 banana shallots, slice them in half and unfurl the layers. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, think before you open your mouth, unfurl your pen, punch a keyboard or click a mouse.
The golden, starry wonders of the dark universe unfurled before the brave interstellar vessel “Argus” like a black flag of victory with a whole bunch of holes in it as the mysterious mission buoyantly commenced that would one day resolve critical questions about space, time, and the appropriate ratio of nuts to chips in a perfect chocolate chip cookie. Campbell and Strugeon Full Details
They unfurl into a very upright form that looks particularly good when planted en masse. Times, Sunday Times
On record that formula can be overly tasteful but here it took flight, unfurling into life-affirming polyrhythmic jams. Times, Sunday Times
Sports fans are like some new species of migratory bird, season after season winging across the world to some far-flung field to unfurl the flag and imbibe the beer.
At one point, a police helicopter reported a riot, seeing men unfurling a banner across the prison roof and smoke billowing from the yard.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
Ariza has gone from looking like the epitomal Rockets player to the kind of unfurled, witless entity that threatens the team's balance. FanHouse Main
Given the "disruptiveness" element the court is focusing on, does that mean if the student unfurled a 14 foot banner with those mohammed cartoons and some nearby muslims start rioting that that sign would be verbotten? "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"...
The truss units have quite a sophisticated internal shape to incorporate the winch and drive units for furling and unfurling the sails.
Maybe I'm inured from years of baseball games and seeing the red, white, and blue unfurl from the Symphony Hall ceiling every time the Pops plays "The Stars and Stripes Forever," but any flag that every side can convincingly wrap itself in doesn't bug me that much, Eddie Izzard's warnings notwithstanding. Amo, lloro, canto, sueño
Two of the crewmen were crouched by the railing, ready to unfurl a rope ladder down the side of the hull. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Also all sorts of bolts of cloth unrolled this way and that or unfurling from the flies, sometimes covering the entire cast, though not for long enough.
The floor in the corridor creaked as Mafalda disappeared in a sound of unfurling sailcloth. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Several unidentified men began unfurling banners of white cloth on which they had written statements.
Its course demands stamina, but the oeuvre of the Spanish master unfurls artlessly as a fascinating school of seeing.
Mid-album, the thin skitter of "Boiling Water" unfurls into a seriously nagging tune that will sound sweet in H&M. Magnetic Man by Magnetic Man – review
As soon as the first breath of wind rippled the ocean about them, the sail was unfurled and everyone aboard had a purpose again.
Walk through the prairie's first showing of pussytoes, puccoon, and bird's foot violets, walk through the tick-ridden grasses, walk through the wild phlox and unfurling ferns of maidenhair.
While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”. Archive 2009-03-01
Columbus and his captains went ashore in an armed launch and unfurled the royal banner and two flags. Christianity Today
Walk through the prairie's first showing of pussytoes, puccoon, and bird's foot violets, walk through the tick-ridden grasses, walk through the wild phlox and unfurling ferns of maidenhair.
Witch hazels unfurl their soft-scented, fringy flowers at a time when gardens offer few other blooms.
The scroll is unfurled from the coffin in a northeasterly direction, so that the priest may walk the soul along it in the proper direction. Mystical Art From a 'Lost' World
This attack unfurled upon future generations of the world without explanation, compensation, reclamation, or reparations Breast Cancer Awareness Doesn’t End on November 1
Trees, hedges and shrubs are truly beautiful as the fresh, green leaves unfurl. The Sun
Perhaps the Sixers were inspired for a thrilling victory by the pregame festivities that included two banners for the Sixers championship teams unfurled from the rafters, along with one former public address announcer Dave Zinkoff. USATODAY.com
See for yourself by driving or bicycling Stockton's finest tree-lined streets any time after the first of April, when deciduous trees unfurl their leaves.
A creak sounded, and a rope ladder unfurled from an unseen source.
I imagined the ribbon of my life happily unfurling before me.
A Navajo would stand and unfurl a handwoven rug or offer up a silver concho belt or bridle or blanket. Yellow Dirt
We are going to get out there and we are going to unfurl our umbrellas and eat our cupcakes in the rain. The Sun
A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
As the sail unfurled and bellied out in the wind, it blocked the ferryman's view of the island.
The steel rib cage anchors an exterior surface that ripples and unfurls with the energy of a flag snapping in a brisk wind.
The opening track unfurls at a crawl, like a narcotizing drip of slow realization, as he eulogizes the rock aspirations of his younger self, and it's unclear whether he's damning music or his belief in it.
Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day.
As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles. Wildwood
They're only now getting used to the idea that Mr. Lincecum just might have figured out how to keep an arm healthy slinging a mid-90s fastball, despite his small body, shoulder-length hair and a throwing motion that resembles a Slinky unfurling diagonally. The Year of the Ace
I imagined the ribbon of my life happily unfurling before me.
They unfurl into a very upright form that looks particularly good when planted en masse. Times, Sunday Times
Yet children gathered at the school yesterday to unfurl the national flag and some recited prayers.
I slow the line as it zips through my left hand and the leader begins to unfurl. Times, Sunday Times
I'd like to know how large the sail is when it's unfurled. Solar sails to take flight - Boing Boing
I slow the line as it zips through my left hand and the leader begins to unfurl. Times, Sunday Times
The bonnie flags were a 'unfurl'd, a gallant sight to see, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
He unfurled the parchment, and I saw it was covered on both sides with some indecipherable writing I figured must be fairy language, but at the bottom my name was clearly written in thick bloodred ink. Master of Mirrors
A herbaceous perennial, this plant dies back at the end of summer and remains dormant until late winter when leaves gradually begin to break through the surface of the soil and unfurl.
You will not win any popularity contests in your anchorage when (not if) the genoa unfurls in the middle of a storm.
Once outside the inner breakwater, we began to unfurl all the sails.
Speculation is rife that the Fed chief could unfurl new measures to stimulate the economy. Yen Slips After Japan Moves to Rein It In
Conventional wisdom says sunflowers can be cut as soon as the petals begin unfurling.
Circinate vernation is the unfurling of the leaves over time.
The unfurling croziers of Dicksonia antarctica, one of the hardiest of ferns, look like a nest of baby orang-utans.
In asserting this, the Reformation unfurls the banner of Free Spirit and proclaims as its essential principle: Man is in his very nature destined to be free.
This is a good arrangement for some sailors, but tacking the Genoa will require going forward to pull the sail through the slot or furling the Genoa and unfurling it on the new tack.
The problem is the difficulty of unfurling such a huge flag in gale-force winds.
Columbus and his captains went ashore in an armed launch and unfurled the royal banner and two flags. Christianity Today
Once grass starts sprouting and leaves begin to unfurl on trees, the vegetation gives the world a greenish cast on an overcast day.
Just a thought, a brush of desire against its surface, and it unfurled like a bud in springtime, and years of searching came to fruition. The Grace of the Foolish « A Fly in Amber
A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
Instead he stood on the step on the driver's side, half in and half out, slowly unfurled his considerable frame to its full height, and began his verbal assault.
It was good mental exercise, sitting still and letting the world unfurl. One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
196 Chapter 24 Anna sits at the large oak desk in her chambers and looks out at the plane tree whose leaves are just beginning to unfurl. SEA MUSIC
Next to the mishmash of blackened dahlias, nicotiana rose staunchly and the roses that had been buds the day before were unfurling.
Traveller unfurled a rope ladder and we rejoined our companions in the Smoking Cabin. ANTI-ICE
Columbus and his captains went ashore in an armed launch and unfurled the royal banner and two flags. Christianity Today
It is my Sacred Heart … It is (metaphorically) wearing my heart on my sleeve … It is a tendril unfurling … It is a knot untied … It is a release … 2010 March « Mudpuddle
Ramps are usually the first wild food to be harvested by foragers out of the forest, followed by morels, fiddlehead ferns (small, unfurled edible ferns, whose green beans-meets-asparagus flavor is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition) and nettles. Restaurants See Signs of Spring
The boat suddenly lurched and spun about as the sail was unfurled and caught the wind.
Oh do look how the flags all unfurl! Times, Sunday Times
Largest of its kind, the South African king sundew unfurls.
Monks scribbled personal details in bound volumes or unfurled wispy scrolls.
January 25th, 2009 PATIALA/CHANDIGARH - Newly appointed Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal made a political statement during Republic Day celebrations Monday by unfurling the national flag in Patiala, the hometown of former Congress chief minister Amarinder Singh. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Then, Lancelot unfurled a roll of names of squires who were to be dubbed a knight.
Unfurling in a narcotic haze, the five songs on Auspicious Winds unfold slowly upon flowing echo and chiming reverb.
I fired up my DVD player, reclined in my easy chair, and let the film unfurl before me.
Protesters managed to dodge an encampment of police to unfurl a long banner calling for universal suffrage. Times, Sunday Times
She cups one in her hands and the colors swirl and unfurl, capture and enrapture. Winter Bloom
After the homer, the Giants unfurled two banners from the light towers on either side of the main scoreboard in center field: one of Bonds on the left side and the other of Hammerin 'Hank's 755, and 715 flashed on the scoreboard. USATODAY.com - Bonds puts Babe behind him with 715th homer
The statistics paint a picture of munchers and snackers toiling over crumb-infested keyboards, surrounded by a sea of empty potato-chip bags and unfurled candy-bar wrappers.
A student unfurls a small furry pet attached to a retractable string on her parka.
Oh do look how the flags all unfurl! Times, Sunday Times
The Eagle never stopped unfurling its yellow insignia with the bicipital eagle, which according to tradition was given by Carlo V in person on one of his visits to Siena.
Trim and quarter the fennel lengthways, not worrying if a few leaves unfurl. Times, Sunday Times
One minute he's running up to the bow to check a sail is properly unfurled. Times, Sunday Times
The Small Heath WRP unfurled their banner, elaborately lettered white on red. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
Should tide you over until the flag is unfurled over Ibrox, for lest we forget, Glasgow Rangers are Champions!
Trees, hedges and shrubs are truly beautiful as the fresh, green leaves unfurl. The Sun
As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles. Wildwood
Willis mimes the act of unfurling a centrefold.
The figure is represented in flowing vestments of white, fringed with gold; and she bears aloft a scarf half unfurled by the breeze.
While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”. Archive 2009-03-01
They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
On March 20 this year, using climbing slings, hooks and chains, he managed to perch on a ledge and unfurl a banner.
During the House debate on the Ten's contempt citations, Rankin ostentatiously unfurled a CFA petition in support of the Ten and began to read, a performance intended to raise once more the specter of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy in Hollywood and to warn the recalcitrant CFA members that they could be tarred with the same Red brush as the Ten: Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
He is alleged to have blocked the path of a doorkeeper and unfurled a banner as the protest took place.
It's like a yo-yo made in China with a string that breaks within 2 seconds of it being unfurled.
Willis mimes the act of unfurling a centrefold.
It was quite remarkable: all of a sudden, thinking Australians were reduced to shrieks of joys when a colourful rag was unfurled, (even an outdated and clearly colonial-era one at that).
The tea keeps better than conventional green teas; the leaves unfurl when the tea is brewed. The East India Company Book of Tea
In his 80-page Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth and their Proper Remedies (1833) Solyman Brown, a New Englander, dentist and graduate of Yale, sought to offer reassurance, though his lines nevertheless unfurl a gloomy vista: The chair
The protesters made speeches and unfurled banners and posters accusing the regent of being corrupt and demanding the police investigate him.
Wisconsin unfurled last season's Final Four banner, but Northern NCAA Men's Basketball - Northern Illinois vs. Wisconsin
Then with sudden animation, he unfurled his scroll.
Scrolls of smoke unfurled from three stone chimneys set amidst steep shingled gables.
We are going to get out there and we are going to unfurl our umbrellas and eat our cupcakes in the rain. The Sun
Bidding farewell, I unfurled the umbrella, and walked out into the rain.
In a few days, the curls will unfurl and get rough, turning the precious karakul pelt into cheep sheepskin.
Then Dr Salmon triggered a mechanism, which unfurled the umbrellas like a flower and anchored them either side of the hole in the heart.
When at last inquiry was made whether all companions expected were present, the red flag began to quiver and writhe most noticeably and finally to unfurl, and there emerged from its depths the dirtiest and most slovenly man I had ever seen, and the frouziest and most repulsive of dogs. A Girl Among the Anarchists
But most of the rolls will also be unfurled on new housing sites springing up all over the country.
Spots of snow still lurk on northern slopes while glacial lilies unfurl in patches of sunlight.
Dusty flags are again unfurled. Christianity Today
The Golden Age seems akin to the city it so lovingly unfurls - uncertain of itself, elegant in parts and convoluted in others, but with no wynd or mews that does not conceal some ingenuity.
In the spring these plants would unfurl tiny pink bell-like flowers that attract bees.
As the story of some rural drama unfurls, the track builds with more and more instruments fading in: low, swelling guitar chords, laconic banjos, mournful harmonies.
He took it, almost reluctant to open it, but still he unfurled the flag.
unfurl a banner
Indigo Print Patchwork: with only four made and no two the same, these patchworked indigo patterns range from floral, to snowflake, to ornate teardrop, and come from WWII-era Japanese shirting that "hadn't been unfurled since the middle of the last century", something they'll hopefully complain about less than your dad. Thrillist: General Knot & Co: Dapper Looks From Salvaged Materials
The boat suddenly lurched and spun about as the sail was unfurled and caught the wind.

How To Use Unfurl In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):