Let's hope we can un - ravel Mr. Silver's message swiftly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot]

And they'd give me what come off one machine to ravel for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, July 27, 1977. Interview H-0057. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

In the ravel of one of these pieces was a bit of brown thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 19] Reference

Well, I hadn't learned to put the top on but I learned to ravel it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, July 27, 1977. Interview H-0057. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

It took ten minutes to ravel what had taken about two weeks to knit.    From Wordnik.com.  [retreat from retreat] Reference

Tie a knot in each end, and ravel the ends of raffia to form a tassel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference

The world needs Badger to unravel mysteries and to ravel new mysteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Rama Rampage: Be My Hangover Cure.] Reference

I was learning to top -- you had to put the top on you know, and ravel it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, 1977 July 27. Interview H-57. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Emma Whitesell] Reference

I was learning to top — you had to put the top on you know, and ravel it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, July 27, 1977. Interview H-0057. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

It was very expensive silk, custom made, blue and crimson, and it didn't fray or ravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Places]

We have the other three parrots now and can un - ravel the complete message at my leisure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot]

A lot of people, hey, if you're ravel raffling off an iPod, sure I'll come donate some blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2007] Reference

Mark all notches with basting thread, tailor's chalk, or notch the goods if it does not ravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

The two inner rings contained coarse and very fine 9 ravel or sand as filter material respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Historical development and experience with water treatment] Reference

My hands move across her skin, trying to ravel all the mysteries of the future back into a knot again.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Everything is Inevitable] Reference

Beginnings, -- to touch for a minute the knot where all the tangled threads ravel themselves out smoothly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

I came up with the idea of cutting those towels in half and hemming the raw edges so that they didn't ravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints From Heloise] Reference

Reinvent yourself, and you will become more inscrutable to those who might try to un - ravel who you really are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilse Witch]

Some ravel dreams to cats cradles in whose uninhabited solitude, slowly as a yawn, wish to pull forth the superstrings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unmanned] Reference

The drape of the lawn can be tricky it's very lightweight, and the wool can ravel fast, so start with the twill to avoid tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2006] Reference

It was like trying to pick his way across a minefield, Jake recognised as he tried to un ravel what she was really saying to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yesterday's Echoes]

They'll make down very well for you, but you can tell her from me that she'd better double-seam them, for the stuff's apt to ravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

Why is it that pleasure excursions seem to ravel out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Footprints of the Padres] Reference

American would ravel out, if it were not for sound sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Lads] Reference

We wanna push it as hard as we can and have as much fun and ravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

She stitches the appliqued pieces close to the edge so they won't ravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [GJSentinel.com] Reference

They carry grass with them, which they ravel up and pad into their shoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift on an Ice-Pan] Reference

A man has no right to ravel out his life, even though the threads are of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunger] Reference

Given pure blood to paint such a skin with varying emotions, enough wind to ravel out.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Land] Reference

Artists try to ravel up the threads of past lives in shows at SJ Museum of Art and SJSU.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They ravel little, and can be steamed almost to their original freshness when they become worn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

A series of logical deductions brought him to ravel step by step the game that was being played.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delight Makers] Reference

Yet, having known, life will not press so close, and always I shall feel time ravel thin about me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profiles from China] Reference

Also, since the bottom edge is cut on what is called the "bias", you can choose not to hem as it shouldn't ravel excessively.    From Wordnik.com. Reference