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

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

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

"Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care."

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

The Lady Clara de Mowbray, in her own proper person, has of late been but little seen in the twisted and ravelled skein of this history.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

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

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

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

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 George Manville Fenn

Inexperienced and negligent observers see no difference in the operations of ravelling and unravelling: they never come close enough: they despise plain work.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Being a young man inclined to be honest with himself, Dwight Wade confessed that the fabric of his forgiveness had a selvage that already showed signs of ravelling.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

“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

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