unravelled

Example Sentences

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It was an interesting choice to describe a player who’d unravelled a few nights before, but it felt like the correct read.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

BBC Sport looks at the events of the past week and why they have raised fresh concerns about a season that has unravelled both on and off the pitch.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The nonpartisan specialists from CISA, backed by their FBI counterparts, explained they’d unravelled what had happened in Antrim County.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

A 2018 power-sharing deal brought relative peace, with Kiir as president and Machar his deputy, but the agreement has unravelled over the past year.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Even so, I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro