tangle

Example Sentences

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The chicken, shredded tender, mingles with spaghetti broken into thirds, while cream-of-mushroom soup pulls everything into a glossy, velvety tangle.

From Salon

Fingerprinting appointments had become common practice for the family, who have been tangled in a web of asylum proceedings since they landed at a New York airport in 1994.

From Los Angeles Times

As the universe grew, a network of these strings would have stretched, twisted, and tangled, preserving information about the conditions that existed in the earliest moments.

From Science Daily

It depends on a patient’s medical coverage, of course, but also on an increasingly tangled web of federal policies and corporate pricing strategies, along with the ability to do good old-fashioned research.

From MarketWatch

On what would have been the writer’s 91st birthday, Didion’s thorny and tangled vision of the city endures.

From Los Angeles Times