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

To activate the beacon, you unscrew the cap and unreel the antenna.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would take moving pictures automatically, once Tom had set the mechanism to unreel the films back of the shutter and lens.

From Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]