Example Sentences
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The long, thin white hair, curly at the ends, the aristocratic beak of a nose, the crumpled, wide, ravelling shirt front, the string tie, with the bow nearly under one ear, were almost exactly duplicated.
From Sixes and Sevens by Henry, O.
There's no crying off for YOU no ravelling out, no clean leaves.
From The Return by De la Mare, Walter
It is not by ravelling that you will best appreciate its tissue or design.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
She was the beginning of several desirable things, but the pattern was in no instance finished, and was always ravelling out on one side or the other.
From From Jest to Earnest by Roe, Edward Payson
“Marry, the first were that he was like to have no wife, or she should have amended a corner of his rare slashed sleeve, that was ravelling forth o’ the stitching,” saith she.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
