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labyrinth
noun as in maze, complexity
Strongest match
Example Sentences
They enter this curious and claustrophobic home only when Mr. Reed promises his wife is baking a pie in the other room, but he draws them into his labyrinth using false promises and rhetorical exercises.
It has prompted a frenzy of 911 calls to the Solano County Sheriff’s Department from people who find themselves lost in the labyrinth.
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur — with the head of a bull and body of a man — was imprisoned at the center of a labyrinth in Crete and ate anyone who couldn’t find their way out.
It’s not quite the seamless solidness of the wall Jennifer Connelly’s character encountered in the “Labyrinth,” but it does have a similar quality.
The one image has had more than 4,000 likes and scores of complimentary comments, with one person describing it as "otherworldly, like a watercolour painting emerging out from a time labyrinth".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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