unroll
verb (used with object)
to open or spread out (something rolled or coiled).
has unrolled
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present perfectof unroll (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But since then, the so-called “Wakefield effect” has unrolled this progress.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
The scene was the Great Kremlin Hall within whose floodlit, white-marble walls Russian history has unrolled in war and peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Landau, seventh-grade science teacher, has unrolled a beaten-up poster of the ignorant tongue map, and he’s explaining about how people have misunderstood the science of taste since the beginning of time.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
Century after century has unrolled and yet this is the same.”
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr
The objective world has unrolled before the eyes of science its splendid panorama and its magnificent wealth of forms.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
