How To Use Unroll In A Sentence

This brushpot typifies the pictorial quality characteristic of so many later vessels, which were often worked as if the surface of the jade were a sheet of paper or a scroll to be unrolled.
When you're ready to assemble the canapés, unroll the ballottines and cut each into 2cm-thick slices. Times, Sunday Times
I used to stay until Claudette Colbert was unrolled from the Persian carpet, then I left.
Unrolling it with a few clacks, he revealed the map's contents.
She unrolled the cloth, laid it on the floor, and, after a few seconds 'study, selected a pick and a tensioner. The Empress File

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

When I opened my razor case on the following morning, I found a paper, upon unrolling of which I found a ringlet of hair, with the word Felice on the envelope. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
But in most parts of it, the red carpet so eagerly unrolled for me is swiftly jerked out from under his feet.
The group showed its appreciation of Mr. Haden by playing his tunes, which unrolled like scenes in a classic film: The bright and optimistic "Hello My Lovely" could have underscored a scene of boy-meets-girl; the romping calypso "Child's Play" belonged under a dance sequence; and the excruciatingly haunting ballad "First Song" clearly represented a moment of heartbreak. Getting Down to Brass Tacks
Ataren said nothing but got to work on opening and unrolling the old scroll.
Unrolling his bedroll, Muammar made himself as comfortable as possible, dreams of power and glory still filling his head.
Larger companies may roll up multiple products into one value, but it shouldn't be much imposition to provide the separate, "unrolled" values per title. "100K Group" lists? (Or, 'The Numbers Game' Part 2)
Ask, O my lord, thy want," quoth the servitor, and quoth the other: "I demand of thee a carpet of the primest brocade all gold-inwrought which, when unrolled and outstretched, shall extend hence to the Sultan's palace, in order that the Lady Badr al-Budur may, when coming hither, pace upon it and not tread common earth. Tehran Winter
It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.
You can't unring the bell; you can't unroll the dice. Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues
I unrolled my sleeping bag as usual.
With his hunting-knife he slashed the straps from his pack, unrolled his blanket, and got out dry socks and footgear. First Version of To Build A Fire
It contains early images, gatefolds, installation shots and drawings, as well as two scrolls that can be removed and unrolled.
You nod and smile with every paragraph, and wish the story would unroll into a novel, breaking the boundaries of the book, streaming in gaudy tapestries, out through the door and into the blue wide yonder - to the place where awards are distributed and happy critics fall over themselves to lavish praise (this story did not win any awards, by the way) Why am I so excited about this? "Constellations", ed. by Peter Crowther
An unrolled parchment map of the Dextral Mountains lay on a low table between them, held open by a decanter of ardent spirits, a silver bootjack, a heavy jeweled dagger, and a candlestick. Conqueror's Moon
Richard smiled to himself as he began to unroll the letter. NAKED EMPIRE
And then, with the help of five teachers, he unrolls all 15 feet and 238 pounds of his grand finale: a prehistorically huge yellow python named Banana Boy's Brother. Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination
Carefully unroll the pen some, and trim away any excess clay (cut it a bit short - don't allow the clay to overlap).
The beautiful landscape of the West Lake unrolls under the plane.
At the end of their first day of trekking, they unrolled their blankets on a side pad.
He unrolled my socks and opened my camera and even took the top off my toothpaste and gave it a squeeze.
I like his work, especially knowing it takes technical skill to mix the polymers for canvas paintings that can be rolled, shipped, unrolled and stretched.
They unroll the red carpet at just about every opportunity.
Get the old rents in thy canvas reglued; the holes and cracks refilled with varnish; wrap thyself in the magic webs of hazy clouds and glittering mists; fly to the Poet, and unroll thyself ever before him! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
He wanted you to have it," Sabina explained, as Harry pulled back the sofa to unroll the painting fully. EVERVILLE
They came over to look over her shoulder as she read the scroll aloud, unrolling it.
Roller-furling headsails should be removed from the foils not only do they create windage but the chance of their unrolling is great.
We had, vainly and absurdly, tried to unroll the garden hose.
We immediately unrolled our sleeping bags and threw them on the bed.
I picked a random spot in the TV room and unrolled my sleeping bag.
Exposure of etiolated cereal leaves to red light results in unrolling.
To pronounce the dark 'l' in girl or world, unroll the tongue and press the tip up against the alveolar ridge just behind the teeth.
He unstrapped his blanket once more and found a space to unroll it. THE WHITE DOVE
Seeing the ground rush by fast scared them less than seeing it unroll slowly from some great height. A TIME OF WAR
And after the sergeant has read aloud an official declaration under the Official Secrets Act, and each one of them has separately signed an impressive form, Amory calls a jaunty Also los, bitte, meine Herren! across the hangar to a squad of policemen in dungarees who promptly lay their ladders against the British Leyland bus and swarm onto the roof, barking orders at each other until, with infinite circumspection, the backdrop is laid like a precious archaeological find on the concrete floor, and unrolled. Absolute Friends
He broke the wax seal and unrolled the paper.
She unrolled herself and got out of bed, stretching before reaching over to the temporary portable wardrobe that had been set up for her use.
It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.
She communed a while, then unrolled a second manuscript. CHAPTER VI
The bare-chested frontman sports a handlebar mustache that seems to unroll every time he trills a buccaneer rrrr.
He unrolled a color poster. On the right was a "before" picture—a blowup of a baseball card showing me as a young player, a large wad of chewing tobacco bulging chipmunk—fashion in my left cheek.
In the afternoon a banner proclaiming his victory is unrolled and held by supporters.
I unrolled the bandage and started tying it around her head.
Roller-furling headsails should be removed from the foils not only do they create windage but the chance of their unrolling is great.
The intellectual movement proceeds parallelly with the economic movement; they are the expression, the translation, of each other; psychology and social economy are in accord, or rather, they but unroll the same history, each from a different point of view. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Claudia slipped the order from his hand and unrolled it, her eyes scanning the document quickly.
Adam unrolled his sleeve and opened the box to show Daniel.
By using high-speed buffers and do-loop unrolling technique, it reduced memory complexity and improved average time of floating-point calculation.
The standard now unrolled, the material snapped in the brisk wind, royal blue and navy coloured thread embracing the silver King's crest.
He quickly patted everything down, making it as flat as possible, and then he finally unrolled his sleeping bag.
We had unrolled the unfinished version of the map and adjusted our helmet lights to shine on its laminated surface.
Hence it is that no scholars in Europe but the most learned Italians, smit by the national genius, could have devoted their vigils to narrate the evolutions of Pantomime, to compile the annals of Harlequin, to unroll the genealogy of Punch, and to discover even the most secret anecdotes of the obscurer branches of that grotesque family, amidst their changeful fortunes, during a period of two thousand years. A History of Pantomime
The percentage of integrity area in the wall unrolled image area with fracture area is subtracted from which is close to the total core recovery(TCR) based on core length percentage.
The result is ham-handed unrolling of the backstory and awkward dialogue that intrusively narrates when it might better have shut the hell up.
The newspaper fell open easily, unrolling the front page to her view.
He took hold of the gauze he had placed over the cut in his palm and held it in place while he unrolled several inches of gauze strip and some tape.
Yet I dare say the chorus of a musical comedy would not be awestruck -- would, indeed, 'bridle' -- if one unrolled to them their illustrious pedigree. Yet Again
In the very design of Gibbon there is a certain poetical attraction; his work may aptly be described as panoramic, unrolling a vast picture or succession of pictures, too vague in outline and too monotonous in color for minute impressions, yet, on this account, the more remarkable for general effect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
Unroll the carpet and let it get acclimatised to the room's atmosphere and temperature overnight before laying.
The handscroll format allows emotions to emanate with each unrolling, like the mists exhaled by the landscape and water.
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.
When his pack was unrolled, calicoes, glittering knives, razors, scissors, clocks, cotton caps, shoes and notions made a holiday at a fair. Megan Doherty: My Walking Tour With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
Richard smiled to himself as he began to unroll the letter. NAKED EMPIRE
And I'd like to give you a less event to get habitat. Let me unroll it.
We have in our hands also, newly lit, newly trimmed, lustrous with the genius of our own time, that very lamp with which we are instructed to make this inquiry, that very light which we are told we must bring to bear upon the obscurities of these documents, that very light in which we are told, we must unroll them; for they come to us, as the interpreter takes pains to tell us, with an 'infolded' science in them. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Allison unrolled a 10-foot ribbon of cloth, and Kylie laid a 10-foot string of beads on top.
Guests bring movies on tape, and show them on the screen that unrolls from the ceiling.
The percentage of integrity area in the wall unrolled image area with fracture area is subtracted from which is close to the total core recovery(TCR) based on core length percentage.
With a hoe-blade unrolled from her canvas, jammed onto the walking stick, she cleared a patch of low white stumps.
The grey carpet unrolled quite easily, which suggested that this was done before.
Thus the time taken to unroll a carpet is very short compared with the time interval between the arrival of successive consignments.
In the afternoon a banner proclaiming his victory is unrolled and held by supporters.
This spring they have come into flower at the same time as a nearby royal fern Osmunda regalis Hillii’ has begun to unroll its crosiers.
Here's video of the On the Road scroll being unrolled recently for its display in Kerouac's birthplace, Lowell, Mass. Rollin, Rollin, Rollin
When we unroll the sixth and the thirteenth centuries, and hang up the two side by side, we find that it is a contrasted picture that they exhibit.
Guests bring movies on tape, and show them on the screen that unrolls from the ceiling.
Guests bring movies on tape, and show them on the screen that unrolls from the ceiling.
He unrolls one parcel and goes to dump the crubeen softly but holds back and feels the trotter.) _ Sizeable for threepence. Ulysses
Caesar untied the carpet and unrolled it slowly.
There had been a bath – or something equally cleansing – in a pail near a fire where ragged but agreeable people were cooking herrings, sausages, and other delicacies on little girdirons or pans that they unrolled from the strange bundles that were their luggage. Harding's Luck
The brothers ended their conversation and unrolled their blankets and laid their heads in their saddles.
Yelina's eyes widened when she spotted the drum kits, which stood side-by-side on the carpet Jack had unrolled to cover the concrete floor.
He unstrapped his blanket once more and found a space to unroll it. THE WHITE DOVE
When disturbed they roll up so tightly that it is virtually impossible to unroll them.
She unrolled her quilt and blanket onto the sofa.
They unrolled a blue mat on the forest floor and laid out an assortment of equipment, including a syringe with anesthesia, a ruler, calipers, a scale, a tape measure, a thermometer, and antibiotic ointment.
Then he broke the seal and unrolled the scroll and read: GuildWars Edge of Destiny
James scooped up the bag, unrolled the top, and looked inside at the box of .38 caliber ammunition. Etched in Bone
To others, again, etymology and linguistic thoughts may be suggested; or blue may be 'apperceived' as a synonym for melancholy, and a train of associates connected with morbid psychology may proceed to unroll themselves. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
We unrolled our sleeping bags on the floor and stretched out.
A standard optimization is loop unrolling; the compiler will unroll the loops to reduce the number of branches.
Other parents make it harder for a child to unroll it by squishing or misshaping the roll. Pottytrain your child in just one day
I unrolled the mattress on the dusty tile floor, flopped down on it and lay there close to tears.
Unroll a 10-ounce package of refrigerated pizza crust onto a large baking sheet that has been coated with cooking spray.
The wide concave of cloud, of the monotonous hue of dull pewter, formed an unbroken hood over the level from horizon to horizon; beneath it, reflecting its wan lustre, was the glazed high-road which stretched, hedgeless and ditchless, past a directing-post where another road joined it, and on to the less regular ground beyond, lying like a riband unrolled across the scene, till it vanished over the furthermost undulation. The Hand of Ethelberta
The deluxe rooms have latticed panels that can be unrolled to reveal a glass curtain that screens the bathroom area.
Rhetoric unrolled headily in his brain as if he was at a political rally, making a speech. PROSPECT HILL
A huge chart of Southeast Asian seas, a Victorian-looking affair on linen with names in Dutch, unrolled between us. The Gates of Noon
By then, you may read the news on thin, flexible screens that unroll like window shades.
So it was that his more or less casual lark visibly took on, from the perspective of this castle in Luristan, as he unrolled a gaudy emblazonment of eagles at the top of the parchment, a new and curious color. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
A predatory meat cylinder, rope limbs unrolling, finding a ship’s rail with ghastly prehensility. Archive 2010-03-01
A couple of the others went to the bookshelves and retrieved several books and a couple of cylindrical scrolls they opened to unroll A2 sized parchments.
Align the tape against the edge of what you're masking, then pull the masker along the edge to unroll a perfect line of paper and masking tape.
In that case, individual contacts can be 'unrolled' by double-clicking on the aggregated name entry. KDE-Look.org Content
She talked about unrolling a huge sheet of chromakey (bluescreen) paper and filming various animals on it. Back from LASFS
Unrolling it, taking a deep whiff of that rich aroma.
The iron, prepared previously in long thin rods, the ends of which were sharpened with the file, having been introduced into the largest hole of the drawplate, was drawn out by the beam which wound it round itself, to a length of twenty-five or thirty feet, then unrolled, and the same operation was performed successively through the holes of a less size. The Mysterious Island
It must be carried from its transport, unfolded, unrolled, spread out, without any wrinkles, and then inflated with a massive fan.
But thanks to the unique circumstances of their preservation they survived, and what scholars found when they unrolled them was a major library dating back to biblical times. In the Valley of the Shadow
I unrolled my sleeping bag as usual.
Unrolling a sheet of scraped parchment, she smoothed it with a pumice stone, then dipped her pen into her inkhorn. HERE BE DRAGONS
The individual scrolls, which extend in some cases to 9m unrolled, look not unlike charcoaled arboreal limbs left at the bottom of a campfire. In search of Western civilisation’s lost classics « Isegoria
One of the team, known as the beltman, would swim out to the person in trouble, wearing a belt attached to a line which unrolled from a reel.
Tyler set down the basket and unrolled the blanket, intent on setting things up himself.
All you have to do is steal the Declaration of Independence, unroll it on a kitchen table, apply a little fresh-squeezed lemon juice, heat with a handy hair dryer, and presto, letters and numbers appear.
Then follows his more recent photographic work that expresses his contemplative enjoyment of the quiet landscapes unrolling between the Great Lakes and the East Coast.
It was a long, pendulous, minutely itemed affair, such as the traveller's recklessness in candles and firewood comes to in the books of the Continental landlord, and it almost swept the floor when its volume was unrolled. Indian Summer
Extending a network is rarely a matter of simply unrolling a length of cable, especially when a distance of miles must be traversed.
By using high-speed buffers and do-loop unrolling technique, it reduced memory complexity and improved average time of floating-point calculation.
The salesman quickly unrolled the carpet.
However, when used in conjunction with loop unrolling, it's not so bad.
If you look to the right of the photo, above the flytraps, you can see something that looks like a fern fiddlehead unrolling.
Seeing the ground rush by fast scared them less than seeing it unroll slowly from some great height. A TIME OF WAR
The king unrolled the scroll and read it with a concerned look on his face.
He wanted you to have it," Sabina explained, as Harry pulled back the sofa to unroll the painting fully. EVERVILLE
It reminded me of a party streamer unrolling across the sky.
Sir, as part of our first tier of troubleshooting I'd like to make sure that your laptop is fully unrolled. Rollup Laptop
The word 'thangka' means 'rolled art' and so these paintings of Buddhist deities and other images are rolled and unrolled for hundreds of years. UUpdates - All updates
Like a huge reel of thread the long winter term unrolled itself. The Loom of Youth
The salesman quickly unrolled the carpet.
_ (With regret he lets the unrolled crubeen and trotter slide. Ulysses

How To Use Unroll In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):