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

The Passenger has the anxious ambience and level melancholy of Graham Greene's fiction, but unlike Greene, Antonioni lets the narrative ravel.

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

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

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

When he inherits this extensive but somewhat raveled empire from Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, who have been co-directors since 1945, Baryshnikov will be just 32.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her hair was black yarn that had been knit and raveled, so that it was curly.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

A more melancholy and affecting history than his is not readily to be conceived; and amid the ravelled skein of his ideas, the memory of his grievous wrongs stands clear and imperishable.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William

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

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 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

Overcasting is done by taking loose stitches over the raw edge of the cloth, to keep it from ravelling or fraying.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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 Twain, Mark

There's no crying off for YOU no ravelling out, no clean leaves.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter

I was afraid to use violence for fear of breaking it, or ravelling it through.

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville

Another, with lint bandages in her hand, begged her to come into a church hard by and assist in ravelling linen for the surgeons.

From The Battle Ground by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson