unweave

Example Sentences

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Now that narrative is starting to unweave itself.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2025

“This is an opportunity for Seattle to be truly progressive, to unpack and unweave those racist and biased practices embedded in all institutions of power,” said Chelsea Hendrickson, Northern Arapaho and Cupiq.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2019

To unweave the plot before your eyes would require several assistants from the circulation department and a committee of subscribers to appear and certify that the narrative implements are without trickery.

From Time Magazine Archive

And do not the nations pass their time in producing webs of Penelope, whose bloody threads they weave and unweave again with tears?

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron

Palimpsestlike we strive to decipher and unweave the spiral harmonies of Chopin, but they elude as does the sound of falling waters in a dream.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James