Example sentences for: tangled

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

  • I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.

  • "Monica's Place," the Web site of "Monica S. Lewinsky" (whose America Online profile declared, "Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave"), was spotted last week by several reporters.

  • These perpetually sunny islands are also very beautiful in the best tropical manner: a riot of flowers, tangled green forests, mountain waterfalls, dramatic rocky headlands, beaches of white, tan, or black volcanic sand.

  • Hungry for power, Ross tangled with Kansas' senior senator, Samuel Pomeroy, and its congressman, Sidney Clarke, eschewing the era's weightier battles over rights for freed slaves and reconstructing the Union.

  • Walking through Smith's fantasy world of black steel, I found myself drawn to some of his softer, more tentative objects, like the handmade plaster web called Wingbone (from his daughter Kiki's collection) or a pencil sketch of confused sperm, tangled up (in a traffic jam?)


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