Unravelled Sentence Examples

Sophocles describes in his Oedipus Tyrannus how Oedipus was resolved to pursue to the end the mystery of the death of Laius, and thus unravelled the dark tale, and in horror put out his own eyes.

When carefully dissected and unravelled each is found to consist of a thick tube, about 5 in.

The motor nerves of the arteries, of the bladder and rectal sphincters, and also of the bronchi, are paralysed by atropine, but the nervous arrangements of those organs are highly complex and until they are further unravelled by physiologists, pharmacology will be unable to give much information which might be of great value in the employment of atropine.

Only by the most careful inquiry into their history can their relationship or pedigree be unravelled.

The whole tangled skein of Italian politics, in that involved and stormy period, is unravelled with a patience and an insight that are above praise.

Curnock having unravelled the difficult cipher and shorthand in which Wesley's early diaries were kept.

C. Baber, who, in 1877-1878, unravelled the geographic mysteries of the western provinces of the Celestial empire.