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

Such quaint language endures in the movies from the '30s and '40s that unreel on television with the steady persistence of an arterial throb.

From Time Magazine Archive

As soon as it stops I'll unreel the hose and Cole will call for some fellows to jump up and work the handles.

From The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck by Webster, Frank V.