ravel

“Hence, ravel; a tool that does the fiddly nesting together of details and summary tags for you.”

From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2022

Grealish is particularly fond of tools that allow cohosters to get even more creative with their posts, like ravel by artist and game designer Everest Pipkin, which enables the interactive fiction tool Twine in cohost.

From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2022

Danny Lavery: Let’s ravel up some sleaves of care today!

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2021

Most films, as they ravel their stories, narrow their focus to two or three central characters.

From Time Magazine Archive

“They are fine for rote learning, but the study of naming requires a level of dedication that ravel such as yourself rarely possess.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Quiet and unassuming, Henríquez’s novel ravels slowly and surprisingly, and without an iota of sentiment, delivers an original coming-to-America tale.

From Washington Post

Still another double agent ravels the skein of British cold-war diplomacy with a classically simple plan that Author Clifford fashions into a classically complicated thriller.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though Stoppard ravels and unravels the destinies of these characters, that is not his prime concern.

From Time Magazine Archive

Butley's life ravels like the end of his shirtsleeve; it conies undone in the single day we watch him.

From Time Magazine Archive

He’s got on his moccasins, old ones he wears around the house, with holes worn under the big toes, and his V-neck maroon sweater with the ravels coming off the elbows.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Let’s knit up the raveled sleave of care together today, shall we?

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2016

There are those Korean dishes that challenge you to combat and those that knit up the raveled sleeve of care.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2014

And four hours still doesn’t cover the whole tale, which spans 25 years and was really a skein of short stories raveled around the title character, Olive.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014

On its own it is an exuberant, if somewhat raveled play.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambassador Rahel, unable to cope with seesawing changes in her life, had raveled herself like a sausage into the dirty airport curtain, and wouldn’t unravel.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

First, dreams knit up the ravelled sleeve of care by allowing us to process unhappy or traumatic experiences.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

His simplicity is intact; the threads of his brown cloak haven’t been ravelled.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2015

This week China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who is used to getting along very well on a ravelled shoestring, arrived in India for conversations which may be historic with the Viceroy and military commanders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock, and went on.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

"Certainly is queer what freaky ideas they get into their heads," went on the man with the ravelled cigar, ignoring the lack of encouragement extended to him.

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.

Meanwhile, Penelope sat at home, weaving and raveling.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

It’s methodical work, pulling the line in hand-over-hand and raveling it back onto the spools.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2018

She held the raveling in her palm, touched it with her forefinger, and noted its spiraling.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

My mother turned from a foggy log into a slumbering, middle-aged woman, her mouth slightly open and a snore raveling from her throat.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Whatever his fortune, whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem—the tuck and fold that hid his raveling edges; a someone sweet, industrious and loyal to shore him up.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

Daily had some loop fallen, which might have gone ravelling far enough; but daily was he there to pick it up again, and keep the web unrent and solidly progressive.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

Being a young man inclined to be honest with himself, Dwight Wade confessed that the fabric of his forgiveness had a selvage that already showed signs of ravelling.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

"He sits ravelling out his life into a multitude of golden threads," went on Ferdinand with a bow, his steely eyes trying to look gentle.

From The Great Hunger by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)

She crossed the threads of a brook ravelling themselves from density.

From Marianson From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

Nancy’s explanation added still other tangles to the maze, and the two men wondered what would be the final ravelling of it all.

From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth