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

It fires four guided missiles which unreel up to 1,968 yds. of wire in flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe there is a future life, and in it we'll be allowed to unreel all the sweet and pretty things we ever wound up in our earthly passage.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)