What is "unfurled"

Usage examples of "unfurled".

Freed from the confines of the suit, Pip unfurled her pleated pink-and-blue wings and soared through the shattered foreport, out into the alien sky.

She was astir and fully alert, triangular emerald-green head held high, wings half unfurled ready to carry her aloft.

She unfurled the stripes up the punctured face, the sparse bristled mane did you shoot it?

Bright sunlight unfurled into the room to reveal elaborate traceries carved across the walls and ceiling.

As they unfurled to merge with the surrounding carvings, a dull light drifted into the room.

Once a day the shamans came and unfurled their white sheet and set out their offerings to Teylas.

In a distant province of Russia at first, then on the banks of the Volga, and finally in Moscow itself, the old cry was raised, the hideous mediaeval charge revived, and the standard of persecution unfurled against the Jews.

Above the shadowy world, Still more and more unfurled, The gathered mists upcurled Like phantoms melt and pass.

Like a scroll unfurled, And shadowy as a landscape seen in dreams, Reveals itself the sleeping, quiet world, Painted in tender grays and whites subdued-- The speckled stream with flakes of light impearled, The wide, soft meadow and the massive wood.

As they stared, a tiny black ball soared to the top of the makeshift flag-pole on the crest of the western headland then unfurled into a red swallow-tail.

As the sails unfurled, he heard from forward the soft clunk of an axe blow as the anchor cable was severed.

These tentacles then unfurled into sheets each reaching out to fuse to its neighbor.

On top of the pile the long white antennae unfurled, the bright yellow optical organs wobbled in front of the uppermost lobe.

Datsun B-210, where we removed the plastic anchors of our ski boots and luxuriated in the freedom of recently unfurled toes.

He unfurled himself from the counter and held out his arms, and she walked into them.