labyrinthine

Example Sentences

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It requires a labyrinthine permitting process any time a “major emitting facility” is built, requiring air-quality modeling and public hearings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Driving the growth in marine traffic is a widespread idea that the Northwest Passage—a labyrinthine network of straits and channels connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic—will soon become a sustainable freight thoroughfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

For now, the mood is exuberant at Renate, a labyrinthine club with multiple DJs housed in a dimly-lit complex near the Spree river, a Berlin institution which recently celebrated its 18th birthday.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Itamar Moses, no stranger to unlikely dramatic subjects, compressed the epic saga into a compact yet labyrinthine book.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025

Which is to say that several secret meetings were occurring at the same time; and the political corridors were even more labyrinthine than Jefferson’s imperfect memory of events.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis