uncoil
Example Sentences
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An event like the George Floyd murder may look like a sudden flame that’s lit a fuse, but in fact that fuse has been uncoiling, and flaring, and smoldering for generations, and will continue to.
From New York Times
The story that uncoils is stranger, more difficult to tell, than those valiant accounts of rescuing a “forgotten” woman writer from history’s erasures or of the challenges faced by the woman artist.
From New York Times
Soon after its encouraging opening, “Spiral” clumsily uncoils.
From Los Angeles Times
They reel in all of their uncoiled energy in an instant act of will to preserve not just themselves but their opponents.
From Washington Post
The tension steadily builds until a culminating event, and then slowly uncoils from there.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
