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

But I wonder who in our office delivered Helda’s honor, if there was one at all, whether it was air-posted to Germany in a handsomely twined bundle of vellum and silk.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee