imbricated

IPA: ɪmbrʌkeɪtɪd

adjective

  • Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
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Examples of "imbricated" in Sentences

  • The caps are usually clustered and imbricated, that is, they overlap.
  • Gender as a class-system is imbricated with economic class, and with race and nationality.
  • The personal is always imbricated with the landscape (a la Hardy): there is something so familiar in what is said
  • McCain, like Bush before him, is deeply imbricated in the radical religious constituency that buttresses his party.
  • And for all the dazzle of modernity the simple, stolid book is still the best way to tell an elaborate, imbricated, enchanted tale.
  • Moreover, part of the difficulty in reading Hegel lies in the fact that epistemological issues are always imbricated with ontological issues.
  • I walked to a fragrant climbing rose, Madame Alfred Carriere in spectacular bloom, the snowy imbricated petals almost glowing in the predawn shadows.
  • Senator Clinton's position is symptomatic of a deeply troubling, imbricated pattern of her campaign: selectively playing-by-the-rules, while universally claiming the high ground as both moral leader and political victim.
  • The hawks-bill turtle, which gains that name from its narrow, sharp, and curved beak, like that of a hawk, is also called the imbricated turtle, because its scales overlap each other at their extremities, as tiles are placed on the roofs of houses.

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