Example Sentences

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Ambassador Rahel, unable to cope with seesawing changes in her life, had raveled herself like a sausage into the dirty airport curtain, and wouldn’t unravel.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The way he gnawed at his red mustache showed how misadventure had raveled his nerve.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan