Verb (used without object) : The scrolls unroll easily. ,The landscape unrolled before our eyes.    From Dictionary.com. 

Like a huge reel of thread the long winter term unrolled itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loom of Youth] Reference

A huge chart of Southeast Asian seas, a Victorian-looking affair on linen with names in Dutch, unrolled between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Noon]

In that case, individual contacts can be 'unrolled' by double-clicking on the aggregated name entry.    From Wordnik.com.  [KDE-Look.org Content] Reference

The caravan routes unrolled before her, at sunset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Zu Pfeiffer unrolled a map on the wall beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

I sometimes see the drama of life unrolled before me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Someone had unrolled blueprints on a conference table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day That Changed America] Reference

The patent cot was unrolled, set up and made ready for.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

The great city lay beneath us like an unrolled scroll.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

In a small corner at the back of his mind, a scroll unrolled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

About five hundred volumes have been well and neatly unrolled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Many times daily he unrolled this bill and secretly admired it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

The canvas bale, being unrolled, displayed a bundle of gray blankets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

He picked it up and unrolled it, after having looked eagerly around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The fields of green or gold are being unrolled like ribbons before my eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Tears were hot and harsh in his throat as the scene unrolled itself before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

I handed him three flags, which he carefully unrolled, and displayed the ensigns of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

The Doctor untied and unrolled the little packet, then looked at it by the gaslight.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference

Many bodies more cheaply embalmed fall to pieces when the cloth is unrolled from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference

The old man laid the canvas stretcher out beside the girl on the floor and unrolled it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Place on Earth] Reference

Hastily the cart was unloaded and the large canvas tent unrolled and laid upon the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

The girl's simple life unrolled itself -- its hopes, its ambitions! its home affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Drew unrolled the blanket he had carried tied about him, and he squeezed down beside Anse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebel Spurs] Reference

He took the lace of exquisite texture, and unrolled it so roughly that it tore in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

I kicked off my shoes and pulled my damp pants from my legs and unrolled the socks from my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mississippi Blues] Reference

I had unrolled it with much satisfaction, and placed it on the most conspicuous part of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

           Robbie unrolled about five feet of string and laid the kite flat on the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Day] Reference

Thereupon he hobbled the horses in the luxuriant grass round the spring, and then unrolled his pack.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Before they embarked, the commander unrolled an aerial photograph revealing the mazelike warrens of the camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War's Human Toll] Reference

Ahead, Watt and Henley unrolled sod sections in the simmering morning heat, stomping them haphazardly into place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murderer's Road] Reference

Cinnamon has a bright tan-color, is rolled many times, and is not much thicker than paper when a piece is unrolled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Cookery] Reference

"We have so many manuscripts," says Boyle, "that if we unrolled them all they'd more than cover the entire Vatican City.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From Rome, Glittering Prizes] Reference

Russia was suddenly unrolled before my eyes, I could believe the tradition of his eloquence, for here was its inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

I felt the little creature, who was there without yet being there, clinging to me; his whole life unrolled itself before me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

So Nikki and I did what any considerate and exhausted guests would do: We unrolled our sleeping bags and went straight to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Alaska souvenir: Bruises] Reference