labyrinthine

Example Sentences

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It requires a labyrinthine permitting process any time a “major emitting facility” is built, requiring air-quality modeling and public hearings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Driving the growth in marine traffic is a widespread idea that the Northwest Passage—a labyrinthine network of straits and channels connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic—will soon become a sustainable freight thoroughfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

For now, the mood is exuberant at Renate, a labyrinthine club with multiple DJs housed in a dimly-lit complex near the Spree river, a Berlin institution which recently celebrated its 18th birthday.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Many performing arts centers contain labyrinthine windowless rooms underground for dressing, makeup and costumes, although it remains unclear if these were the rooms Trump was referring to.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

Huge Greek medallions showed in spots of light upon its façade, above a dark labyrinthine pattern in the stone, and I propped her against the stoop with its carved stone monster.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison