Unwind from or as if from a reel.
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Examples for "reel off "
Examples for "reel off "
1 Don took the reel off the recorder, said, Don't say anything now.
2 You should have heard him reel off your praises by the yard.
3 We could reel off the names of another few dozen hurling heroes.
4 Now be quiet, while I reel off my physiological lecture to you.
5 And what a fund of anecdote and adventure he could reel off !
1 Forward, he thought, and the film of memory began to unreel .
2 And with that thought, his life started to unreel before him.
3 Hold 'em here, and we'll unreel the hose when we back the engine!
4 Every man dropped the line he had begun to unreel .
5 The colored man was beginning to unreel a line.
6 I opened my mouth to unreel a string of reasons why that was unnecessary, humiliating, and impossible.
7 While there, unreel the cables and hold the centre point (its centre of gravity) in the orbit.
8 The string continued to unreel .
9 One morning at my desk, an essay I've had an idea about starts to unreel itself like a satin ribbon.
10 It took two people, one to hold the first turn of food wrap and another to circle with the box and unreel more.
11 As soon as it stops I'll unreel the hose and Cole will call for some fellows to jump up and work the handles.
12 And yet, more and more as the days went by, this old-time film would unreel itself before the eager eyes of Merton Gill.
13 He was studying the words that still unreeled themselves line by line.
14 She unreeled the power line and plugged it into a wall outlet.
15 The movie was unreeling , but standing silhouettes obscured most of the screen.
16 With confidence he unreeled the dark line out to the end.
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