How to Use unfolded in a Sentence

unfolded

adjective
  • Long shorts with knee high socks that are unfolded are not allowed.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The alliance just kind of unfolded with people that felt right.
    — Rachel Schonberger, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • So the unfolded Razr 5G has pretty much the same screen size as my big iPhone.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • If unfolded, the surface of a bottlenose dolphin’s brain would be about the size of six magazine pages.
    — Katie Palmer, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2011
  • Still, the facts of what unfolded were unclear even to some of the participants, the report found.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • She was critically injured at the concert, where a crowd surge unfolded.
    — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Repeating this with the unfolded sheet of paper will illustrate why parachutes work.
    — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 14 June 2018
  • The keyboard can also be set on a desk in front of the unfolded screen, turning it into a bigger mobile workstation.
    — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
  • This gives you a large touchscreen HDR tablet when completely unfolded.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Hollywood’s biggest night delivered a lot of fun moments — and even more unfolded behind the scenes.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Yet as the bloodless coup against him unfolded, Beijing offered no words of support or sympathy.
    — Brook Larmer, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
  • In its unfolded flat state, our origami structure tumbles chaotically in the wind, similar to an elm leaf.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The art is the same size as the unfolded 7-inch sleeves Superchunk originally released with its singles.
    — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 25 Oct. 2017
  • An unfolded knife was found on the driver's side floorboard of Blake's vehicle, authorities said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • For an unfolded sheet of paper like the ones Wang and Ristroph tested, the center of balance is directly in the middle of the page.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The White Review was handsomely produced, with a cover that could be detached, unfolded, and mounted as an art work.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The count was a slow process, with each ballot needing to be removed from two envelopes, unfolded and scanned, and the eligibility of every voter checked.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • For reference, Samsung considers the unfolded screen on each model as the main one and the panel that's active when the phone is folded as the cover screen.
    — Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • Hours after the deadly shooting that left at least 10 people dead unfolded, hundreds of mourners gathered for a vigil held in honor of the victims.
    — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 18 May 2018
  • Flexible layouts adapt apps to the unfolded screen, making multitasking feel more natural.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Valjermayne, who is married to a black man (who can be seen and heard in the background of some of her videos), said that her husband was using skewer sticks to make kabobs and from there, the style for her kind of unfolded.
    — Chaédria Labouvier, Allure, 26 Oct. 2017
  • That’s certainly not what happened last year, and based on the majority of response from drivers and fans, that’s not what unfolded Saturday night, either.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2018
  • Foldable phones that feature the Galaxy Z Fold design (seen below) become Android tablets when the screen is unfolded.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Mar. 2022
  • SharePlay might turn the unfolded screen into a collaborative canvas for gaming, streaming or brainstorming with friends and colleagues.
    — Mark Vena, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With all that said, the 9 Pro Fold is built around the expansive unfolded display, offering the tablet experience in a smartphone when running a single app.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Shadar Logoth, like the rest of the computerized ruins the group passes on their journey, is duly impressive, evoking the untold centuries over which the story of light and dark has so far unfolded.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • This tablet smartphone also has a double folding line, but is folded only 2x as thick as when unfolded – comparable to the Galaxy Z Fold 2.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • As the second half unfolded and the Bears were able to find modest success running the ball with Khalil Herbert, Jones gained a little bit of confidence, too, in mushy conditions that probably negated some of the pass rush.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022

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