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

Many operagoers think that the jet plane has done more to ravel the thread of lovely sound than any other factor.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a yarn snowman that Courtney had made when a Brownie, it was gray now, and beginning to ravel.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But the script ravels, wandering into contrivance and predictability.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's all here, the public occasions and ceremonies, the baffling indirections of court diplomacy, the knots and ravels of an intense family life.

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

George Segal and Elliott Gould, a pair of raveled gamblers, need luck bad.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now, even though the cold already bit in the mornings, she wore only her one earth-colored dress with the raveled hem.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

It was made of three strands of heavy rope, braided, looped to form a handle, tied with a blue ribbon, and ravelled at the ends.

From The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed

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

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

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

You hadn't any experience in ravelling such things out, and naturally it was too many for you.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain

The long, thin white hair, curly at the ends, the aristocratic beak of a nose, the crumpled, wide, ravelling shirt front, the string tie, with the bow nearly under one ear, were almost exactly duplicated.

From Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry

But it would be gathered rather in the joy of intellectual activity, realizing its own energy, and ravelling up to its own form the woof of other minds, than with any practical bearing on life.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

Was he ravelling out his life into golden threads that vanished and were forgotten?

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

She was the beginning of several desirable things, but the pattern was in no instance finished, and was always ravelling out on one side or the other.

From From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe