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How to use the word unraveling in a Sentence?

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The hardware teams suspect that this is another piece of Dacron netting, based on the observed 2x2 mm2 grid mesh pattern, they noted that this particular piece of netting appears to have undergone significant unraveling/shredding, suggesting that it was subjected to strong forces.

Justin Maki

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The stories are unraveling.

David Kirsch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Bubbles and Crashes, the stories are unraveling.

David Kirsch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Haiti's constitutional crisis failed to register with many Washington policymakers as well as those in the international community for far too long -- in part, thanks to the plethora of challenges already present in the Western Hemisphere, notwithstanding the President Joe Biden administration's claims to the contrary, the inattention of Peter Bergen policymakers in recent years has contributed to the country's rapid unraveling.

Peter Bergen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are still a lot of open questions about this system, for example, we do not conclusively know where or how the planet formed. It is likely that both observers and theorists alike will be studying HD 106906 for years to come, unraveling the many mysteries of this remarkable planetary system.

Robert De Rosa

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is the type of move Secretary Mattis was able to stand up to in the past, but this administration seems to be unraveling under the strain of the pandemic.

Jack Reed

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The biggest risk to the market is that the trade stuff starts unraveling, then all bets are off, and you could have a much more severe correction.

Keith Lerner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is about far more than me or a couple of individuals. As Foreign Service professionals are being denigrated and undermined, the institution is also being degraded. This will soon cause real harm, if it hasn't already, moreover, the attacks are leading to a crisis in The State Department as the policy process is visibly unraveling, leadership vacancies go unfilled, and senior and mid-level officers ponder an uncertain future and head for the doors. The crisis has moved from the impact on individuals to an impact on the institution.

Marie Yovanovitch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Don't accept our history unraveling, I'm not getting used to it and I'm not turning my head.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Do not accept the erosion of multilateralism, don't accept our history unraveling, I'm not getting used to it and I'm not turning my head.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This quasar’s brightness and its great distance make it a unique tool to study the conditions and processes that prevailed in the first galaxies in the Universe, we look forward to unraveling more of its mysteries.

Chris Carilli

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We are enforcing the laws passed by Congress, and we are doing all that we can in the executive branch to protect our communities. It is now time that Congress act to fix our broken immigration system, surely it is the beginning of the unraveling of democracy when the body who makes the laws, rather than changing them, asks the body who enforces the laws not to enforce the laws. That can not be the answer.

Kirstjen Nielsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was a slow unveiling of my sexuality that was of course, very difficult for us, and then… I wind up as a crack cocaine addict [in 2002] after having been sober for 21 years. And Carly went through all of that with me. So the unraveling is rather dramatic.

James Hart

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.

James Scott

added by williamson
7 years ago

Society has changed. People have changed. My physical and mental health were unraveling. As soon as that ratings period ended I took an unpaid leave of absence, and in August I asked to be let out of my contract.

Heidi Hemmat

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I knew I couldn’t keep ambushing people who did bad things to other people, society has changed. People have changed. My physical and mental health were unraveling. As soon as that ratings period ended I took an unpaid leave of absence, and in August I asked to be let out of my contract.

Heidi Hemmat

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Now that the law is unraveling, it’s no surprise that Democrats are clamoring for a so-called ‘public option,’.

John McCain

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

But the gasoline crack spread is also unraveling.

Matt Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Economic weakness has set the tone, but the gasoline crack spread is also unraveling.

Matt Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As we go in, we are sort of turning the pages of this book, unraveling the stories behind, we're like ethnographers.

Echo Delta

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I’m seeing progress but it's like unraveling a big ball of knots.

Hal Donahue

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This man’s life story holds the key to why he saw his entire existence unraveling, if that’s what occurred, and why he began to question the value of his existing for anyone.

Keith Ablow

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There isn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell you would get the Chinese and Russians back on board, this is a permanent unraveling of the sanctions.

Frank Gaffney

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive, backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling… I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers… it’s human, it’s frail, it’s interesting.

Rainn Wilson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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