Example sentences for: tangle

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

  • In Full Fathom Five, the murk grows more evocative; the enticing detail is a kind of small crossbow shape, in yellow and orange, glimpsed through the submarine tangle of a surface encrusted with nails, buttons, coins, and cigarette butts.

  • In paintings such as Hierarchical Birds (1944), the messy profusion of feathers and tails and eyes is meant to convey the tangle of the psyche, while the three layers of color in the background might correspond to Freud's tripartite division of superego, ego, and id.

  • The question is a tangle of moral and economic issues.

  • All attempts to identify the poisoners are frustrated by a tradition of reluctance, even among their victims, to tangle with authority.

  • By the time he made that picture, though, he had already taken in works by more venturesome Pictorialists that showed the modern city as itself and had produced Railroad Sidings, New York (1914): a couple of willful diagonals of boxcars surmounted by a tangle of rails and a head of steam that has nothing to do with mist.


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