unreeling in a sentence

Examples

1. Jan Riese, a designer for the New York Closet Co ., is unreeling her tape measure like a lion tamer's whip as she works her way from his front hall to the bedroom, linear foot by linear foot.
2. Now, even as the plot continues to unfold in its clockwork fashion, the women begin to take control, making it " interactive " by adding alterations to their dialogues and inserting different actions into the events unreeling in the house.
3. It suggests puerility, if nothing else, which can put you in mind of his enduring infatuation with children's fantasies like Robin Hood : " Robin is a major part of the constantly unreeling movie that Andrew paints,"
4. As he restlessly paces the stage at a hotel meeting room and starts unreeling his women-are-the-enemy rant, you don't know whether to laugh, hose him down, phone for the bomb squad, or all of the above.
5. It ended a journey of more than 6 million miles ( 9.6 million kilometers ) that fell far short of its goal _ unreeling a satellite on 12 miles ( 19.2 kilometers ) of cable, generating electricity with the system for two days and then bringing it all back.
6. Jungle waves tantalized urban surfers mired in the brown rubble of crowded beach breaks, but these remote destinations were mostly the domain of hard-core adventurers _ renegades and one-eyed jacks toting battered single-fin pintails and tattered backpacks, willing to eat dust and risk revolution for the sight of " la punta perfecta " unreeling off some nameless malarial river mouth.
7. Through a step-by-step unreeling of the young Woods'life, intercut with hokey re-creations of his astounding victory at last year's Masters, the movie is a series of lessons about perserverence, getting the most out of your talent, dealing with adversity and-- a sign of the times-- coping with the media ( " Everything is on the record,"
8. According to " Pitchfork, " " Some songs are more clearly led by one singer or the other-- Mirah's mournful unreeling on " Spaced Out Orbit " or Thao's rusty guitar slide and junkyard drum clatter of " Squareneck " . . . but everything on " Thao & Mirah " feels of a cohesive collaborative piece, separate from either artist's solo work, a combination that synthesizes their individual strengths to outstanding effect ."