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
Palimpsestlike we strive to decipher and unweave the spiral harmonies of Chopin, but they elude as does the sound of falling waters in a dream.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James
Yes, dear mamma, I am glad you are going with us instead of staying at home to weave and unweave webs.
From A Modern Telemachus by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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
In the weaving and unweaving of the web of war, it was necessary to begin all over again.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
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
But part of this difficulty in unweaving the maze, has its source in a misconception of the original machinery by which Christianity moved, and of the initial principle which constituted its differential power.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
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
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 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
To Pamela and Warrisden, as the mists wove and unwove about it, it had a look of dreamland.
From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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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