Coming apart

Usage examples of unraveling.

He stared out over the valley but saw no movement except the blanket of mist unraveling into drifts and patches and fingers of white.

The strands of rope that bound her hands softened and parted, unraveling like so much rhetted flax.

The lad tweaked her flying braid, and sunbeams lit the unraveling strands like dark fire.

His fingertips caressed the silky hair unraveling at her temple, while his thumb stroked her stubborn jaw line.

The threads pulled taut against the stones, stretching, thinning, and unraveling, before Hugh clapped him hard between the shoulders and shoved him forward after the final pair of riders in the rear guard.

For that matter, no one seemed to remember how the canals had gotten there in the middle of an old town somehow fallen to seed, the seeds rustling against the doors every night along with the sand and bits of seaweed and unravelings of tobacco from cigarettes tossed along the strand-shore as far back as 1910.