extricable

[ UK /ɛkstɹˈɪkəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ɛkˈstɹɪkəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being extricated
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How To Use extricable In A Sentence

  • In the midst of this inextricable mass of plants and sea weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, green, red, and blue. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Seaweed of strange varieties, and of every fantastic shape and texture, the round balls of fibrous grass, like gigantic thistledowns, which scurry before the light breeze, as though endued with life, the white oval shells of the cuttle-fish, and the shapeless hideous masses of dead _medusæ_, all lie about in extricable confusion on the sandy shores of the East Coast. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula
  • In so doing, the church would seem to have vouchsafed the gospel's inextricable relationship to the First Testament.
  • She depicted the inextricable relationship between the stories used to recover the values of the past and the entrepreneur - a relationship that challenged her belief in the transcendence of art.
  • Interestingly, a counter-taboo has emerged as, for the US liberal, it has become inextricable from the abhorrence through which that conservative misogyny is itself judged as morally obscene. On Profanity: 3
  • Although law and literary culture are seen as inextricable and thus seemingly preclusive of Native American ceremony, our essay suggests a rationale and approaches for exploring, in a classroom, the theme of Native American ceremony in its relation to law. Archive 2008-12-01
  • Considering, however, that perseverance would only involve us in extricable difficulties, and that it would also be useless to risk the horses, since we had gained a distance to which the bullocks could not have been brought I intimated my intention of giving up the further pursuit of the river, though it was with extreme reluctance that I did so. A Source Book of Australian History
  • To this ought to be added the large expenses of the various departments of Negro affairs before 1865; but these are hardly extricable from war expenditures, nor can we estimate with any accuracy the contributions of benevolent societies during all these years. The Freedmen's Bureau
  • -- For my own part, whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
  • Objective To explore an approach of CT rendering and mechanical analysis for rib fracture that was inextricable on X-ray film in legal medical practice.
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