Example Sentences

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“It’s like unpeeling the layers of an onion getting to know this guy,” Reilly said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022

"My life has been a process of unpeeling the layers and trust and trusting again."

From Fox News • Nov. 5, 2021

Moriarty excels in unpeeling characters’ psyches, and here she begins with those twitchy, angry children, their individual relationships with their hard-driving “tennis parents” a source of seething angst for all.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

I got right down to the logic board, removing the camera assembly, unpeeling tiny bits of tape, unscrewing tiny screws.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2014

We watch the gradual unpeeling with an absorbed interest, wondering how far it will go.

From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)