tangled

Example Sentences

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The routes of competing undersea cables are convoluted and geopolitically tangled.

From The Wall Street Journal

And it's not just long-line fishing that kills these birds: they also get tangled in the cable lines that pull the fishing nets up towards the boat.

From BBC

Director Guy Ritchie, who has of course tangled with the famous detective before, has this time opted to explore the origin story of Sherlock Holmes.

From BBC

In the middle, a small finch was desperately trying to free his legs, but the more it moved, the more its claws became tangled.

From BBC

They then observed what happened when double-strand breaks formed at these tangled sites.

From Science Daily