unroll
verb (used with object)
to open or spread out (something rolled or coiled).
was unrolling
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past progressiveof unroll.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She had moved to one of the counters, where she was unrolling the skins Jeremy had brought.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
And on this wall-less platform which looked much like a primitive stage, a singular action was unrolling itself in the smoky glimmer of a two-cent lamp.
From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Benjamin A. Heydrick
The captain had placed the things on the newspaper spread out by his side, and he was unrolling the little spoons from their tissue-paper covering.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
Slowly, cautiously, it was unrolling its ball of impregnable armour.
From White Fang by Jack London
The hired pianist had come, he was unrolling his sheets of dance-music and rolling them the contrary way.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
