Example sentences for: labyrinthine

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

  • Even those of us who think The Shining was a botch can appreciate its Steadicam tricycle treks around that huge, empty hotel, which capture indelibly the circular, labyrinthine evil at the heart of the story.

  • The numbers in the above sentence indicate the beginning of each phrase and subordinate clause-- (1) adverb clause: “When people who swing want to see what's happening” modifies the verb try in the main clause; (2) adjective clause: “who swing” modifies the noun people ; (3) infinitive phrase: “to see what's happening” acts as the direct object of the verb want ; (4) noun clause: “what's happening” acts as the direct objective of the infinitive “to see”; (5) gerund phrase: “attending parties given by hipsters” acts as the direct object of the verb try ; (6) participial phrase: “given by hipster” modifies the noun parties ; (7) perpositional phrase: “by hipsters” modifies the passive participle given . In subsequent sentences I shall provide numbers but leave the reader to identify the structures, which will appear in varying orders, so as to avoide cluttering the discussion with labyrinthine explanations like this one.

  • Its cliff-top position and labyrinthine street plan provided an easily defensible spot for the Moors, and Albufeira proved one of the last towns to fall during the Reconquest.

  • Critics deem the hit show's $60 million film adaptation a "glorified TV episode" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). Some attack its incomprehensibly labyrinthine plot, which is wrapped around an alien-government conspiracy.


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