tangle

Example Sentences

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Beneath it spreads a tangled and glowing cloud called the Fox Fur Nebula, named for its textured, fur like appearance.

From Science Daily

The chicken, shredded tender, mingles with spaghetti broken into thirds, while cream-of-mushroom soup pulls everything into a glossy, velvety tangle.

From Salon

Fingerprinting appointments had become common practice for the family, who have been tangled in a web of asylum proceedings since they landed at a New York airport in 1994.

From Los Angeles Times

As the universe grew, a network of these strings would have stretched, twisted, and tangled, preserving information about the conditions that existed in the earliest moments.

From Science Daily

It depends on a patient’s medical coverage, of course, but also on an increasingly tangled web of federal policies and corporate pricing strategies, along with the ability to do good old-fashioned research.

From MarketWatch