0 If a flag, sail, or banner unfurls, it becomes open from a rolled position, and if you unfurl a flag, etc., you make it do this:
The demonstrators unfurled a large banner.
1 (of a flag, sail, etc.) to become open from a rolled position, or to cause something to become open from a rolled position
The texts perpetually gesture towards a moment of fulfilment that remains deferred, when their latent significance would unfurl itself in a millennial revelation.
Many of its best moments are encapsulated lyrical numbers; very little is allowed to unfurl at a span that convinces us by proper length and emphasis of its dramaturgical importance.
The bitter irony is that the tragedy is unfurling in a country which has almost unlimited potential.
She says that she will unfurl it when the first person comes in to ask not about his rights but about his responsibilities.
That flag has remained firmly unfurled for 13 years.
The net is not unfurled at this point.
The roof is now being unfurled.
That is an example of the education in our police establishments, which is preparing the democratic police for events that will unfurl as time goes by.