Spread out, as a sail

Usage examples of unfurl.

She moved quickly, arching up in her spine and dislocating the hinge of her jaws, unfurling her great hollow fangs.

Indeed, what with the noise of the tempest through the rigging and the flashes of lightning and the pealing of the thunder and the clapping of an unfurled sail in the darkness, and the shouting of orders in a strange language by the Captain of the craft, who was running up and down like a bedlamite, it was like pandemonium with all the devils of the pit broke loose into the night.

He thought of the usherettes back at the Bijou Theater in New York, the frightened little Italian girls and the big brassy Irish, and the quickies that took place in the deserted second balcony or out on the empty stage in back of the big screen while the picture unfurled itself over their nervous heads.

The bot stepped into the crate, root tendrils unfurling from her calves and palping the surface of the soil like so many slender tentacles.

Unfurling a planning and zoning commission diagram of the building and a recorder of deeds map of the grounds, Phate pored over the documents for ten minutes.

Two banners were unfurled behind their chairsthe double-headed eagle of Ungria, and the red banner adorned with eagle, dragon, and lion stitched in gold belonging to the regnant, or heir, of Wendar.

In Scardale, the first leaves were starting to unfurl in copse and spinney as Catherine drove down into the village.

Torbay, for a haven, but we were riding out the gale, with our spritsail tucked under the bowsprit and the triangular head sails still unfurled.

Tiny silver puddles shimmered on the trampled ground, and green vines sprouted there, unfurling new leaves despite the frost-laden air.

The rest of the troupe more enjoyably occupied the morning by unbundling the balloon from its long confinement and unfurling it across the field to admire it.

One of them undulated an arm in a gesture as graceful as that of a Balinese dancer, except that instead of a fan, she briefly unfurled a three-bladed lotus razor.

Even more intriguing, the vehicle blocking his view was an American Red Cross Bloodmobile, and two volunteers were unfurling a banner that read give the gift of life--blood drive today.

Noting the piles of money naked and unprotected she unfurled her dustcloths and covered them, leaving them looking rather like loaves of bread rising on the shelves.

Kentucky Regiment sprang on to Canadian soil and unfurled their Irish flags amid terrific cheering by the Fenian troops.

The Colonel was in the farmhouse parlor, sitting beneath the crossed flags of the Faulconer Legion that Faulconer kept unfurled and draped across the parlor wall.