unreel
Example Sentences
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But the parade was such a spectacle that the “many imps of office boys who, from a hundred windows, began to unreel the spools of tape that record the fateful messages of the ‘ticker.’
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
Schmidlin had to unreel the print by hand to see whether he could identity anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2015
All of this was apparent in the first set's opening piece, Thelonious Monk's "Jackie-ing," its rhythmic twists and turns inspiring Green to unreel brilliantly sleek, fast-moving lines.
From Chicago Tribune ● May 20, 2011
In a field where jealousies unreel at every screening, he remains genial.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would take moving pictures automatically, once Tom had set the mechanism to unreel the films back of the shutter and lens.
From Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
