interlock
Example Sentences
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Like comic strips, the predellas contain a series of interlocking, loosely sequential stories, typically the lives of saints.
Some of the headless figures in her paintings — bodies composed of flat, interlocking shapes inhabiting science fiction landscapes and fragmented rooms rendered in vivid shades of violet, teal and acidic blue — have three or more.
From New York Times
They share interlocking fingerpicked patterns and, with moments of dissonance, nudge one another toward new ones, very gradually making their way from quick, fluttering interplay to tolling repose.
From New York Times
Classic dungeons return in the form of multilayered temples with interlocking puzzles.
From New York Times
The coat of arms of Italy’s aristocratic House of Borromeo contains an unsettling symbol: an arrangement of three interlocking rings that that cannot be pulled apart but doesn’t contain any linked pairs.
From Scientific American
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