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

Despite Hellman's efforts, her reputation began to ravel in her lifetime, after she sued Mary McCarthy for calling her a liar on TV.

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

But the script ravels, wandering into contrivance and predictability.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

This time the line is pretty raveled, the appendages superb.

From Time Magazine Archive

He dropped his gaze to the gunnysack and began to fiddle with the raveled edge.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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

Our mothers’ silk stockings, of ante-bellum date, were ravelled with patience and transformed into the prettiest of neat-fitting gloves.

From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood

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

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

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

She would pick every shred, ravelling, or speck from one's clothing.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner

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

“Marry, the first were that he was like to have no wife, or she should have amended a corner of his rare slashed sleeve, that was ravelling forth o’ the stitching,” saith she.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

They secured from untwisting or ravelling the points which were worn for over a century; these were ties or laces of ribbon, or woollen yarn or leather, decorated with tags or aglets at one end.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

Often Betty would go to bed and stay awake, watching Victoria at the table, her fingers ravelling her hair, reading with an intentness that frightened her.

From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George