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
Wrap yourself up in one, lie flat and motionless on the floor, and we guarantee that in an hour the blanket has unrolled itself and is making frantic efforts to escape.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
All the known history of mankind has unrolled before it, not the short history of a few trifling centuries which we call ours, but the history of the world.
From Round the Wonderful World by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
