unreel
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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Origin of unreel
Example Sentences
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But the parade was such a spectacle that the “many imps of office boys who, from a hundred windows, began to unreel the spools of tape that record the fateful messages of the ‘ticker.’
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
Schmidlin had to unreel the print by hand to see whether he could identity anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2015
All of this was apparent in the first set's opening piece, Thelonious Monk's "Jackie-ing," its rhythmic twists and turns inspiring Green to unreel brilliantly sleek, fast-moving lines.
From Chicago Tribune ● May 20, 2011
The new trailer for George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, is scheduled to unreel in theaters this week after a premiere on television.
From Time Magazine Archive
I believe there is a future life, and in it we'll be allowed to unreel all the sweet and pretty things we ever wound up in our earthly passage.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
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