imbricate

Example Sentences

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Once home to a bustling trade route, the region bears the marks of Morocco’s imbricated faiths and folkways.

From New York Times

The pronouncer told her it meant a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees having pinnate leaves with imbricated petals.

From New York Times

Long and lithe, complexly imbricated, strange: Here is contact.

From New York Times

There are a few of note, including Arpita Singh, an Indian artist born a decade before partition, whose forceful, thickly daubed paintings of fleshy and contorted women imbricate mythic and everyday imagery.

From New York Times

Space travel was imbricated with science fiction, with dreams of heroic courage that continue to fuel unscientific fantasies.

From Scientific American