tangled

How To Use tangled In A Sentence

• There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out. Home Life in Colonial Days
• Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
• It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
• We were caught in a tangled web of relationships.
• In one of her wittiest pieces, three gorgeously entangled clay figures hobnob. Meet the best new artists in Britain
• Bose and Home show mathematically that whenever one electron is detected in each path, they will be entangled.
• However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
• One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.
• As the struggle between the exotic island's warring factions reaches critical mass, further questions emerge from the tangled undergrowth. Times, Sunday Times
• The soldiers will be from local militias and local reserves, with all the tangled politics that implies.