Example Sentences

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"Our home honestly felt like it was unravelling," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Hamilton became a superstar, but behind the scenes his life was unravelling.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2018

The Cuban government, however, was unravelling the scheme.

From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2014

But the Frankfurter story was most decidedly not a scoop in the fall of 1973, when the American Presidency was unravelling.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014

The tangle was unravelling in accord with my theory.

From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds