twined

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A picture Korol sent The Times shows him and his girlfriend in a bomb shelter — hands twined like vines, heads pressed close together.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022

Her wall features one seasonally rotating space that includes a hook, to which she ties twined bundles of winter branches and berries, spring grasses or autumn lavender.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022

Baskets to carry things, baskets for cooking, baskets for ceremonies, baskets to trap eels, baskets to cradle children: All are twined from the stems of burned hazel.

From National Geographic • Dec. 17, 2020

Basquiat and Rammellzee represent the show’s twin poles and its twined sources of energy.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2020

Her shiny black hair twined and twisted about her neck and shoulders, as if it were blowing in some wind that Coraline could not touch or feel.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman