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"Tangle" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Don't pull, or you'll tangle the threads.
"I have now in my hands," my companion said, confidently, "all the threads which have formed such a tangle. There are, of course details to be filled in, but I am as certain of all the main facts."
We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
Many mangrove forests can be recognized by their dense tangle of prop roots that make the trees appear to be standing on stilts above the water.
This tangle of roots allows the trees to handle the daily rise and fall of tides, which means that most mangroves get flooded at least twice per day. The roots also slow the movement of tidal waters, causing sediments to settle out of the water and build up the muddy bottom.
I wish I could tangle your hair into beautiful braids.
It takes two to tangle.
My head has become a tangle of confusion.
My niece Lucia likes to tangle my hair.
My charging cable is in a tangle.
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Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
He tangled with the law.
Compared to the last time they'd tangled with the U.S. Navy's carriers, the antiaircraft fire had been much, much more effective, even if the Wildcats hadn't done particularly well in their intercepts. They couldn't know it, of course, but the officer aboard Enterprise who'd recommended recarpeting the ship with 20-mm Oerlikons had, at least partially, been listened to, and the effect on the Japanese Navy's elite aircrews had been devastating.
After a few attempts at counseling, they separated in January 2015. Since then, they have tangled in the courts.
tangled in amorous nets
When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.
This is a book about the potential for the reclamation, reform, and enlightened transformation of the most expansive elements of the liberal tradition— that social and economic justice remain tangled in liberalism's web of pretentious institutions and betrayed promises is the reason for this battle from within.
He spent the night at a friend's place unable to sleep and wondering how he got himself tangled in this mess.
Why else would she have tangled him in spells of illusion to get him to keep her company?
I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
[…] if with thee the roaring wells Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; And hands so often clasp’d in mine, Should toss with tangle and with shells.
You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.
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