unweave
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unweave
Example Sentences
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Now that narrative is starting to unweave itself.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025
“This is an opportunity for Seattle to be truly progressive, to unpack and unweave those racist and biased practices embedded in all institutions of power,” said Chelsea Hendrickson, Northern Arapaho and Cupiq.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2019
To unweave the plot before your eyes would require several assistants from the circulation department and a committee of subscribers to appear and certify that the narrative implements are without trickery.
From Time Magazine Archive
And do not the nations pass their time in producing webs of Penelope, whose bloody threads they weave and unweave again with tears?
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
It is to unweave a stuff, to draw out thread by thread, so as to separate the gold.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 by Various
Mesh by knotted mesh, it’s a net we have woven, perversely, by unweaving the web of life.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2020
The book achieves a state of suspension that is at once fascinating, draining, and dismal—one imagines oneself, along with the narrator, vacillating forever, doubting, arguing both sides, weaving and unweaving webs of justification and delusion.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 30, 2019
Let a planet be wheeling with heavenly science, upon arches of divine geometry: suddenly, to us, it shall appear unaccountably retrograde; flying when none pursues; and unweaving its own work.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
What can a pretty woman find in a novel equal to the romance that is all the while weaving and unweaving about her, and of which no human foresight can tell her the catastrophe?
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
When death called him from his labor the great philosopher was busy at his desk, "combing, and curling, and weaving, and unweaving his writings after a variety of fashions."
From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo
But it never was, inasmuch as Penelope unwove each night what she had woven during the day.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it; and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
So every day she wove on the great loom— but every night by torchlight she unwove it, and so for three years she deceived the Akhaians.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
The cunning net unwove itself, delicately and deliberately, to tangle round the lady.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
His first iteration of the project was almost a memoir, but as he kept reading, he found more material that had been largely untouched — or at least unwoven into a sweeping history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
There are other riddles to be unwoven, including with just how the document got to England.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2017
When the labyrinth is unwoven we're not surprised that "the plan of the library reproduces the map of the world."
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
Very many familiar figures have created this "unwoven" braid, with Blake and Keats at their head.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012
The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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