(v. t.) To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.
(v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
(2) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
(3) Or the basis of an Alice Munro short story concerned (as in all her stories) with Unpacking Fraught Outcomes.
(4) His statements take some unpacking, and for fans of the Tomb Raider series they're not encouraging.
(5) liquefaciens proceeded similarly both in packed and unpacked forcemeat.
(6) There are a lot of pregnancy issues to think about which have not been unpacked yet.
(7) Some of the stories were impossible to unpack, others, like The Gift, were classically constructed short stories.
(8) And this is where we have to start to unpack our doubts.” She drew on her own experience and said her former husband Greg, who murdered their son Luke in 2014, had a marijuana dependency and suffered from paranoia.
(9) Unpacked sites had filled completely with loosely woven trabecular bone.
(10) The DVD extras show a deleted scene of Doc unpacking a suitcase of essentials he would have taken with him to the future: spare underwear, various types of cash, a hairdryer, and a copy of Playboy.
(11) She has just moved house when I meet her and an adjacent room is full of unpacked boxes.
(12) When stored for 24 hours at room temperature, unpacked arepas have a surface moisture loss of 47%, and even if reheated, hardening becomes irreversible in 84.6% of them.
(13) And then, a week later, you talk to her again, and you try to understand that it often takes several goes for a woman to escape, several bags packed and unpacked, several train tickets bought.
(14) This week I helped him with his unpacking at the house.
(15) We have to work with development professionals to unpack their linguistic horrors of value chains, gender mainstreaming and capacity building to find out what that actually means and then communicate it effectively.
(16) She put outfits together herself and, much to my mother's amazement, tidies up after herself and neatly packs and unpacks her belongings when she comes home from college.
(17) Unpack Theresa May’s anti-immigration statement and it dissolves into qualifiable anxieties about how schools and housing and hospitals will accommodate rapid population growth.
(18) To unpack the story of this one brand of backpack is to travel to the heart of early 21st-century consumerism.
(19) Those who work in this field must make conscious choices about how to unpack their boxes.
(20) During Ramadan, local Muslims gather in groups unpacking picnics, waiting for the sun to set over this bustling city.
Unroll
Definition:
(v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
(v. t.) To display; to reveal.
(v. t.) To remove from a roll or register, as a name.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(2) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(3) More than 80 percent required correction in such things as opening the package, determining the outside of the condom, unrolling the condom to the base of the penis, and expressing air from the space at the tip of the penis.
(4) The detergent removes the membrane and many axonemes unroll, always in an organized fashion so that doublets follow one another in sequence, according to the enantiomorphic form of the cilium.
(5) This was going to be the viewpoint, and it began to unroll like a cinema film.
(6) The Republican governor of Alabama, Robert J Bentley, has chosen this day for his inauguration to his second term and a parade is planned; a red carpet is being unrolled on the capitol steps.
(7) The area of the unrolled myelin sheet of internodes of myelinated fibers (MF) of peripheral nerve is thought to be determined by axonal caliber and internodal length.
(8) It went on to tour in New York, Chicago, Ottawa and Berkeley, and Soleri soon became a regular feature on the international lecture circuit, staging sell-out performances where he would theatrically unroll his great drawings across the stage.
(9) Blow me, but in 15 days' time, a bright green carpet will be unrolled in Leicester Square and Franny Armstrong , now 35, better travelled but just as singleminded, will trip down it in the company of A-list celebs, to a specially constructed solar-powered cinema.
(10) The internal organization of this axon population was analysed by topologically transforming the cortical surface from its in situ cylindrical form into an unrolled (flattened) map.
(11) Standing on two feet, barefoot with fixed upright posture; 2. dynamic unrolling of the bare-footed human footsole with constant walking speed.
(12) I believe that we are best as a party when we lead with our principles and not according to the polls.” Karol said O’Malley did not appear to be unrolling a campaign for the vice-presidency.
(13) The carotid angiogram showed an unrolling of the pericallosal artery, but no findings of space taking lesions.
(14) A single change allows the heart to be "unrolled" into a plane for roentgenographic study of injected coronary arteries.
(15) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
(16) These observations are expressed in a schematic summary of the trajectories of olfactory bulb efferents as they appear in the unrolled map and in the more standard ventral view of the hamster brain.
(17) Now that the weather has finally brightened up, we should be unrolling the picnic blankets.
(18) "They are very well-known as images," said Gallagher, "but they have not been brought together ever before, and we want to show the unravelling and unrolling of an entire career."
(19) The public relations effort unrolled by the State Department also ventured into legal terrain, according to the report.
(20) The government unrolled a package of measures that would give career guidance and work placements to all unemployed people under 25 in some of the poorest suburbs; there would be tax breaks for companies who set up on sink estates; a €1,000 (£675) lump sum for jobless people who returned to work as well as €150 a month for a year; 5,000 extra teachers and educational assistants; 10,000 scholarships to encourage academic achievers to stay at school; and 10 boarding schools for those who want to leave their estates to study.