Example Sentences

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But like stepping back from a pointillist painting, the beauty of what was unraveling didn’t hit me until two days later, when dad died.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Landrum tried to compose herself, but her meticulously prepared, low-intervention birth plan was unraveling.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2023

That's when I felt like my life was unraveling.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023

He then served in the British foreign service during an era when Britain’s colonial power was unraveling, and returned to Britain on the cusp of the social and economic upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

And she was the only one who knew it, that the world was unraveling.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder