unroll
verb (used with object)
to open or spread out (something rolled or coiled).
had unrolled
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past perfectof unroll.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away .
From Time Magazine Archive
There the School’s history had unrolled, the fabled riot scenes and Presidential visits and Civil War musterings, if not in these buildings then in their predecessors on the same site.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Winston examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled.
From "1984" by George Orwell
“I didn’t kill you,” he said, once it had unrolled, then held his breath as the dusty jinx-figure exploded.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
“Tonight,” he told Ron and Hermione, once he had unrolled it.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
