tangle

Example Sentences

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A formidable presence, a defender's nightmare - too tight and he'll turn you, drop off and he'll bury one from distance, try to tangle and he'll cause you all kinds of chaos.

From BBC

This isn’t the first time the government has tangled with a corporation over access to technical capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal

My thoughts tangled into a hopeless mess of knots.

From Literature

From our hiding spot, I could see out through the tangle of statue legs to the spot where we’d just been sitting.

From Literature

Here, the grapes that tangled themselves around corner-bar trellises all summer fall frozen to the sidewalk, shattering softly underfoot.

From Salon