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Discover LudwigThe word 'unfurl' is correct and usable in written English
It means to unroll, unfold, or open something, especially a flag or sail. Some examples of its usage are: 1. The sailors worked together to unfurl the sails and catch the wind. 2. With a flick of his wrist, the magician unfurled the red silk scarf. 3. As the national anthem began to play, the soldiers ceremoniously unfurled the large flag. 4. The flower buds slowly unfurled, revealing their vibrant colors to the sun. 5. The banner was carefully unfurled at the start of the parade, proudly displaying the team's logo. Overall, 'unfurl' is commonly used in formal or descriptive writing to describe the action of opening or unfolding something in a dramatic or ceremonial manner.
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Unfurl
verb
To unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag.
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Buoyed by increasingly positive polling, Salmond decided to carefully unfurl his hopes of staging a referendum as late as 2014 or 2015 in the final week of the campaign.
He and my father had pitched their tent in the stolen corner of a farmer's lot, and so it was from inside the fence that my brother saw, not 10 feet away from him, the newborn calf slither on to the grass, unfurl its legs, and stand.
Two known attempts to organise anti-government demonstrations were broken up by the police before the protesters could unfurl their banners.
Mr Mallaby writes about this vast topic with vigour and wit, and in a tone so reasonable it makes you want to slap the people who scale office blocks to unfurl banners proclaiming that the "World Bank Approves China's Genocide in Tibet".
And, indeed, a lot of morale was needed as thousands braved arctic weather conditions to watch the (very) edited highlights of the country's great military history unfurl before them.
Labour wants to unfurl both concepts over the coming months.Whether the party will succeed is another matter.
Israeli officials leave that vague, hinting that Mr Netanyahu may unfurl a new plan in Mr Obama's presence and then show it to the world.
The banners unfurl, the all-female brass band begins to play and, in the sweltering heat, Mrs Hatoyama starts to dance.The campaign for the election to the upper house of parliament on July 29th has been taxing for Japan's opposition parties.
As the lander is pulled in by the comet's weak gravity, it will unfurl three spring-loaded legs to absorb the energy of the impact, and will then fire a harpoon into the comet's surface to ensure that it stays put.Compared with this gentle pinprick, however, the NASA researchers behind the Deep Impact probe are planning a giant bullet.
Contrary to what Mr Gingrich says, in America, Nazis do have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington; a Japanese citizen could unfurl a banner of the rising sun at Pearl Harbor and so on.The majority of pols, unwilling to bin the constitution, have fallen back instead on the notion that building the centre, while perfectly legally defensible, is "insensitive".
During insertion these devices are cylindrical in shape, but they then unfurl two opposable arms for grasping and cauterising, and two cameras to give the surgeon stereoscopic vision.The tiny devices, which are called natural-orifice miniature robots, are tethered to allow the surgeon to control them and to provide power (though Dr Oleynikov has developed wireless versions, too).
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