Example Sentences
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Let’s knit up the raveled sleave of care together today, shall we?
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2016
There are those Korean dishes that challenge you to combat and those that knit up the raveled sleeve of care.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2014
And four hours still doesn’t cover the whole tale, which spans 25 years and was really a skein of short stories raveled around the title character, Olive.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
Since Twain's day, in the view of many newspaper editors, a plague of fireflies has filled the sky: neologisms proliferate and the rules of grammar have raveled badly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her hair was black yarn that had been knit and raveled, so that it was curly.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
