Example sentences for: enmeshed

How can you use “enmeshed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Clinton administration, civil libertarians, and the computer industry are enmeshed in a controversy over cryptography policy.

  • Who cannot become enmeshed in the rich rolling of r's in a word like `railroad,' ferrocarril?

  • Written sentences that in isolation appear ambiguous will snap into focus when enmeshed in a larger discourse; moreover, written language has the advantage over spoken language in that it allows rereading (and reading ahead) in order to ensure an accurate interpretation of a given sentence.

  • Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.

  • In linking Lee's self-destructiveness to the culture in which he's enmeshed, Allen reminds me of Newt Gingrich, who blamed Susan Smith's drowning of her children on liberals and the counterculture, before it was revealed that the young woman's disturbed psyche had more to do with the nocturnal visits of her stepfather, a higher-up in the state's Republican Party.


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