How to Use unpack in a Sentence

unpack

verb
Definition of unpacknext
Synonyms for unpacknext
  • By the time we got to the hotel, I was too tired to unpack.
  • I unpacked my suitcase as soon as I arrived home.
  • It's been a year since I moved here and I still haven't unpacked all of my books.
  • She's good at unpacking complex concepts.
  • Rather than turn away from the baggage, the movie unpacks it.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
  • There’s a lot to unpack here, and plenty of blame to go around.
    — Wired, 26 July 2022
  • These artists don’t use their skills to unpack the damages of the world.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • There was a lot to unpack between these two in this game.
    — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a lot to unpack in the here and now while moving forward.
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Stress unpacks its bags and settles in with me at the hotel.
    — Dede Henley, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a lot to unpack here, and my colleague Clare Duffy is all over it.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There are a lot of things to unpack in my life — more than just with my mother.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The streamer just dropped the first five episodes of a sure-to-be chaotic season, and there's a lot to unpack.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • So yeah, there was a lot happening and a lot to unpack.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But there was plenty more to unpack from the team’s workouts.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2022
  • There’s a lot to unpack as the Patriots are on to Pittsburgh.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The latest news in the banking sector There’s been a lot to unpack in banking over the past week.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Who would've thought after the cameras stopped rolling there would be even more to unpack?
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • There was much to unpack and a lot yet to know about the historic impact of Mr. Biden’s visit.
    — Sabrina Siddiqui, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The collection marks Spanx's biggest drop of new pieces to date, so there's a lot to unpack here.
    — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Just look at it through my eyes, there’s a lot to unpack in someone’s life, so quit the judgment, okay?
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • So why is the genre of romance left largely on its own to unpack that impulse?
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • There is so much to unpack from the intense season 4 finale.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 11 July 2022
  • Keep an eye out this week for a couple of stories unpacking what has (and hasn’t) changed since.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • These hanging packing cubes are the perfect way to unpack the lazy way.
    — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But first, there was luggage to unpack, more people to meet, more jerseys to sign.
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 24 June 2023
  • There was a lot to unpack after the wildest weekend of the college football season.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There's a lot to unpack from this midseason game between the Brewers and Cubs.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The need to check in and unpack only once, it has been said, is why god created cruises.
    — Jen Murphy, Town & Country, 7 Oct. 2022
  • For me, as a critic, that’s been really hard to unpack.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022

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