tangle

Example Sentences

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To not let my love of my favorite food get tangled up in the memory of this day.

From Literature

After I got it all down, I saw how much I’d been carrying, and my thoughts felt less tangled.

From Literature

She gazed at Deadwood with dreamlike curiosity, unlike most people, who peered at Clare’s tangled woods with dread, or disgust, or, worst of all, as if it were something they could own.

From Literature

“They have more resources to make good choices, hopefully, than a lot of folks do who get themselves tangled up in really bad subprime auto financing,” Van Alst said.

From Salon

Ultimately, “Against the Dying of the Light” succeeds as a whole because it’s so layered, offering aesthetic beauty and room-filling atmosphere on the surface and tangled concepts to wrestle with the deeper you go.

From The Wall Street Journal