tangled
IPA: tˈæŋgʌɫd
adjective
- Mixed up, interlaced.
- (by extension) Intricate.
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Examples of "tangled" in Sentences
- Get you nose out of politics go and preach the word as it is rather than gettingin tangled in these politics.
- What some called his tangled locution when testifying before Congress was, by his own admission, intentionally obscuring.
- She says finding that part of her past uncovered both shame and pride -- what she calls the tangled history of this country.
- Sprawling playa bottoms are pocked with feedlots, mountains of hay bales, and farm machinery rusting in tangled shelterbelts.
- When the bookworms did not crumble into a fit of giggles (as they usually do when I have caught them ditching dodo*) my brain tangled in confusion.
- Their imaginative use of the word tangled suggests a nautical genesis, as in Ayers’s “tangled love affairs” and “tangled story” and Obama’s “tangled arguments.”
- Last week: Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin tangled as they received the checkered flag with Bowyer ending up 12th after spinning to the inside of the track.
- Maybe he liked his authentic steaks cooked medium-rare and tried not to think of the lost ships and their crews drifting in tangled debris as he injected himself with rest serum at the conclusion of each day.
- All about them the huge-rooted trees blocked their footing, while coiled and knotted climbers, of the girth of a man's arm, were thrown from lofty branch to lofty branch, or hung in tangled masses like so many monstrous snakes.
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