unreel
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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Etymology
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 judicial scandal began to unreel some 17 months ago when federal agents planted microphones in the offices of Roofers Union Local 30-30b.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several other employees of Tom's plant had made ready to unreel more hose, but the warning of the young inventor, shouted to Eradicate and Koku, had had its effect.
From Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
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