Example Sentences

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I used to be so busy all the time last spring in London and never had half time enough, and now everything is raveling out instead of knitting up.

From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Jewett, Sarah Orne

But lately Sunday is raveling out at the end.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright