untangle
verb (used with object)
to bring out of a tangled state; disentangle; unsnarl.
were untangling
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past progressiveof untangle.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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On one of those walks, I came across my father standing not far from a group of fishermen who were untangling knots in a net the size of a circus tent.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
I heard Cale Johnson ask Polly as she and Matthew were untangling a bolt of wide, white-satin ribbon that I had tangled.
From The Golden Bird by Edward L. Chase
With angry imprecations the members of the band who had fallen through were untangling themselves as rapidly as possible.
From The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life by Edgar B. P. Darlington
Kit carried it out to the grape arbor, where he and Hiram were untangling and training some vagrant vines to travel in the way they should go, up over the trellis work.
From Kit of Greenacre Farm by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester
