Tangled Sentence Examples

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  • She sighed and ran fingers through her tangled hair.

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  • Her foot became tangled in the bedroll and she sprawled on the floor.

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  • Donnie got his skies tangled up, trying to move away.

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  • The mesquite varies in size from a tangled thorny shrub to a spreading tree as much as 3 ft.

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  • Their tangled relationships, marriages, personal and professional triumphs and tragedies tie them together.

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  • Even if you are extra-careful and wash your laundry on the gentle cycle, the straps can get stretched when tangled with other laundry.

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  • On the tangled politics of this period, especially Mesopotamia's relations with the north-west, the Boghaz-Keui documents may be expected to throw a great deal of light.

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  • In the dim light he forced his horse through a tangled thicket overhanging a steep and rocky declivity.

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  • The Tanglewood Music Festival has a slightly tangled tale to tell of its origins.

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  • Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

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  • My past is such an enigma; this business really tangled me up.

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  • He killed his wives in cold blood after they gave birth to his sons, until he tangled with the demoness that was Rhyn's mother.

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  • Fate was both vengeful and impassioned in his treatment of past-Deidre, and Gabe sorted through the tangled web that marked the tumultuous relationship between Fate and past-Death.

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  • The night was long and cold.  Deidre slept, and Katie drifted between a fitful doze and her thoughts.  Dawn crept across the jungle, peering first from the tangled branches overhead then inching through the trees.  As soon as she could see well enough, Katie crawled to Deidre's feet.  The woman continued to sleep, and Katie looked her over.  She looked like any other college student in cargo pants and a light sweater.  Deidre's long, flaxen hair was in a messy braid, and her skin was pale.

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  • Every road in London would be a cat's cradle of tangled cables.

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  • I came across a Mermaid's Purse, with a young dogfish still alive inside, tangled around the base of a kelp.

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  • Now he lay in a tangled heap amid the main halyard.

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  • Within 48 hours, the printing presses of the newspaper lay in a twisted, tangled heap, destroyed by anti-tank explosives.

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  • The totally tangled Charizard tumbles head over tail through the playground - and gets its head stuck inside of a giant igloo!

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  • My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie.

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  • The cotton was cleaned and opened and then fed into the machine where the tangled mess was stretched and straightened.

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  • Each fungus will have vast numbers of these hyphae, all intertwining to make up a tangled web called the mycelium.

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  • I always found baby palmettos tangled in the webs when I dusted periodically.

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  • Hi bilbo, I quite agree, most people tangled with the banks will never prosper.

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  • He weaves a wistful skein of from the frayed and tangled threads of our everyday lives.

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  • His headache pounded, tangled skeins of explosive truth binding him.

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  • One of them had his feet tangled up in a chair, so I knew they had gone down under the power of God.

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  • Nest in dense reeds, tangled brambles or tall grass tussocks.

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  • She gave an experimental twirl herself, laughing a little as her legs tangled and she almost lost her balance.

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  • For 30 minutes no manakins called then the explosive note tore out of the tangled gully undergrowth.

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  • All in all, then, it's a book that starts very well but gets tangled up in its own wormholes.

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  • This unmethodical method produces in her longer and more ambitious novels, in Consuelo for instance and its continuation, a tangled wilderness, the clue to which is lost or forgotten; but in her novelettes, when there is no change of scenery and the characters are few and simple, it results in the perfection of artistic writing, " an art that nature makes."

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  • Haydon in 1844, making good the route from Port Phillip to Gipps' Land with loaded drays, through a dense tangled scrub, which had been described by Strzelecki as his worst obstacle.

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  • Naturally, this idea is tangled in a quagmire of issues about authorship, editing, context and reception.

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  • Wire caught and tripped them and tangled them, but they stumbled on.

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  • Can it produce a bumper harvest or are there too many crops tangled together?

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  • Do n't worry about getting tangled up in all the jargon - try our Glossary.

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  • Prepare planting holes well, adding plenty of organic matter, and tease apart tangled roots.

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  • All in all, then, it 's a book that starts very well but gets tangled up in its own wormholes.

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  • Regular grooming will keep your cat's fur from becoming matted and tangled.

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  • You don't want to find that your child has mistaken a jar of buttons for candy or that your precious kitty has become hopelessly tangled in a basket of ribbons.

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  • No matter how organized you might be, decorating always seems like a nightmare; decorations aren't where they are supposed to be and lights miraculously became tangled in an untouched box.

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  • Mike Tyson's daughter, Exodus, died in May 2009 from injuries she sustained when a treadmill cord became tangled around her neck.

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  • My problem is that I have to go get the box out, and then I have to go digging through tangled spools of ribbons to find just the right one for Cappy's hair.

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  • For covering roots, banks, mounds, pillars, etc., these are excellent, forming at last huge tangled masses of the greatest beauty and elegance in the wild garden.

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  • It is all too easy for an earring to become separated from the other one of the pair or for a chain to get tangled up with other items and broken.

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  • Everyone has experienced the frustration of finding a single earring at the bottom of a drawer or of discovering an earring tangled within a chain, causing damage to both the chain and the earring.

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  • Hanging earrings from an earring tree means that drops from an earring do not get tangled or twisted.

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  • A jewelry box that also includes a necklace carousel will help to keep her precious possessions from getting tangled.

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  • Tangled in lines of code is Crytek's proprietary game engine called CryENGINE 2.

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  • The goal is to create as long a tangled line within these honeycomb-shaped pieces as possible without going back to the center or reaching the outer perimeter.

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  • Menkes' disease, called the "kinky hair disease," results in tangled, grayish, steely, or kinky hair and chubby, rosy cheeks.

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  • Don't sleep in your extensions, as clip in versions can become tangled.

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  • With the recent release of Disney's Tangled, it's no wonder women everywhere are drooling over Rapunzel's very long hair.

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  • Apparently, she stumbled after her long pants became tangled in her open toed shoes.

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  • They are also great for quick changes and active toddlers who get tangled up in one-pieces.

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  • A mesh lining is easy-dry and won't get tangled.

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  • If your daughter will be dressing on her own, you want a swimsuit that is easy to put on and won't get twisted or tangled.

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  • Children should be cautioned not to place wheels near their hair, fingers or clothing, as they can become tangled in the wheels or pinched between the wheel and the hamster body.

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  • No woman wants to lose jewelry, but unfortunately, earrings are easily dislodged and can be lost quite easily, particularly if the woman has long hair that may become tangled in larger earrings.

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  • This is a fun section for fans that explores the characters that are or have been on the show as well as John Black FAQ to help fans understand the tangled past of Drake Hogestyn's intriguing character.

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  • When Holden Snyder became romantically involved with Lily Walsh, the tangled family trees and series of adoptions came to light.

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  • The professional and personal lives of Oakdale's citizens keep them tangled together in the boardrooms, the bedrooms and even the haylofts.

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  • How much more tangled can family lives get?

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  • Ceara found herself tangled and in love with Jeremy Hunter, even making the jump with him to sister soap Loving in 1991.

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  • But short and airy baby dolls were a nice alternative and as a plus, your legs don't get tangled and you don't risk tripping.

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  • It's great for anyone with long hair who hates getting her locks tangled in a button-up front, and it's also extremely easy-care.

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  • Nylon pajama shorts offer just that, and because they don't have the full length of pants, it's unlikely that you'll get tangled up in them during the night.

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  • The headphones are designed to eliminate all of that pesky fiddling with tangled cables business that accompany most traditional headphones, because the audio wire in fits with the lanyard itself.

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  • You live at the bottom of tangled gardens and in hedgerows.

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  • The girl was close enough behind him to smell the dankness of his tangled locks.

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  • For twenty-two years I have lived amongst these pollarded trees, these rutty roads, beside these tangled thickets and streams along whose banks only children and sheep can pass.

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  • At the close of a day of victory he was reconnoitring the hostile positions when suddenly the Confederate outposts opened fire upon his staff, whom they mistook in the dark and tangled forest for Federal cavalry.

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  • By further growth this tissue gives rise to a proembryo, which consists, at the micropylar end, of a sac; the tissue at the chalazal end grows into a long and tangled suspensor, terminating in a mass of cells, which is eventually differentiated into a radicle, plumule and two cotyledons.

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  • Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court.

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  • As the club gradually unravels the tangled web of fate, Anne learns shocking news about herself.

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  • This is particularly important with long earrings as the earring drops can get tangled with other jewelry.

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  • Although Halle's struggled to find true love, her tangled romantic past has given her some insight into the demands of motherhood.

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  • If your child's hair does become tangled in a Zhu Zhu Pet wheel, the manufacturer suggests stopping the wheel by holding it firmly and then turning off the toy's motor by pressing its button.

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  • Our helo went down and got tangled in the bridge's support wires.

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  • Their hair is generally shaved, excepting a topknot; and when not shaved it gets into a matted, tangled mass, gathered into a knot behind or on the crown.

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  • Despite his open protests and subterraneous counter-mining, war was actually declared against Sweden in 1675, and his subsequent policy seemed so obscure and hazardous to those who did not possess the clue to the perhaps purposely tangled skein, that the numerous enemies whom his arrogance and superciliousness had raised up against him, resolved to destroy him.

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  • Wide swamps, deep morasses, tangled thickets, wild impassable forests, were their prevailing features.

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  • These teeth retain a certain proportion of shorter fibre and rough places and tangled portions of silk, which are taken off the combs in a book-board or wrapped round a stick and again presented to the combs.

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  • The whole tangled skein of Italian politics, in that involved and stormy period, is unravelled with a patience and an insight that are above praise.

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  • The micro-organism giving rise to this disease generally appears in the form of small jointed rods and tangled masses under the microscope.

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  • The Baluch Siwaliks afford us strange glimpses into a recent geological past, when the same gigantic mammals roamed along the foot of these wild hills as once inhabited the tangled forests below the Himalaya.

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  • When one of the giant trees falls across the road, it forms a wall breast high to be climbed over, and the mass of tangled ropes brought down makes cutting a path round it a work of time which travellers never undertake."This description is equally applicable to the forest region extending eastward from the mouth of the Aruwimi almost to Albert Nyanza.

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  • They carry the head and neck low and the hind-quarters high, their action in running being peculiar and not elegant, somewhat resembling the pace of a sheep. Though with no power of sustained speed or extensive leaping, they are remarkable fOr flexibility of body and facility of creeping through tangled underwood.

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  • He'd lost them all.  Lilith, Jade, Hannah.  Even Andre.  He'd not only failed every Immortal that ever lived, he'd failed the only people he'd ever cared for.  He lay on the ground, gasping as he tangled his fingers in Hannah's hair.

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  • It is generally found on or near the surface of the ground, but it can not only pursue its prey through holes and crevices of rocks and under dense tangled herbage, but follow it up the stems and branches of trees, or even into the water, swimming with perfect ease.

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  • He was one of the chief ministers of Charles V.; he played an important part in the tangled international negotiations of his time; and he was always loyal to his imperial masters.

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  • After the beating, the silk presents a more loose appearance, but is still tangled and mixed in length of fibre.

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  • The rock formations are of sand stone and limestone, while the forests are either a tangled growth of pine and spruce or a scattered growth of small trees on a sandy soil.

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  • Seeds albuminous, with one integument; the single embryo, usually bearing two partially fused cotyledons, is attached to a long tangled suspensor.

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  • After fertilization the ovum-nucleus divides and cell-formation proceeds rapidly, especially in the lower part of the ovum, in which the cotyledon and axis of the embryo are differentiated; the long, tangled suspensor of the cycadean embryo is not found in Ginkgo.

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  • As a result the coastal plain is covered with swamps and tangled forests, and is extremely unhealthy, except at a few favoured points on the coast.

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  • I was very sorry that the poor little girl with the browns and the "tangled golden curls" died.

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  • Only after emptying a bottle or two did he feel dimly that the terribly tangled skein of life which previously had terrified him was not as dreadful as he had thought.

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  • Alice was followed (in the "Lewis Carroll" series) by Phantasmagoria, in 1869; Through the Looking-Glass, in 1871; The Hunting of the Snark (1876); Rhyme and Reason (1883); A Tangled Tale (1885); and Sylvie and Bruno (in two parts, 1889 and 1893).

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  • One of the principal MS. sources used is the great Kitdb al-Aghani (Book of Songs) of Abu Faraj, which has since been published (20 vols., Boulak, 1868) in Egypt; but no publication of texts can deprive the Essai, which is now very rare, of its value as a trustworthy guide through a tangled mass of tradition.

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  • But the way in which they usually diverge just over and in front of the eye has suggested the more probable idea, that they serve to guard these organs from thorns and spines while hunting for fallen fruits among the tangled thickets of rattans and other spiny plants.

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  • It was delightful to lose ourselves in the green hollows of that tangled wood in the late afternoon, and to smell the cool, delicious odours that came up from the earth at the close of day.

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  • Inside the shed Alpatych and the coachman arranged the tangled reins and traces of their horses with trembling hands.

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  • It is impossible in this place to follow the tangled intrigues of that period.

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  • Birdwood's force had taken root since April were spurs of a tangled mountain mass known as Sari Bair, from the topmost ridges of which the Straits about the Narrows were partially visible at a distance of 4 or 5 miles.

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  • Snares of another type consisting of a tangled mass of threads amongst which the spiders pick their way with ease, but which are impassable to insects, are spun by members of the Theridiidae and Pholcidae; but by common consent the so-called orbicular web, so characteristic of the Argyopidae but by no means confined to them, is regarded as manifesting the greatest perfection of instinct in snare-spinning.

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  • The ` streeting ' of both upper and lower town is very tangled, and the old thoroughfares, mere ` wynds'.

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  • The early colonists found quite half the surface of the archipelago covered with dense, evergreen forest, a luxuriant growth of pines and beeches, tangled and intertwined with palms, ferns of all sizes, wild vines and other parasites, and a rank, bushy, mossed undergrowth.

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  • Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick tangled black hair.

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  • Her warm body was pressed against his, the faint glow of the crystal emanating from its place tangled in her hair.

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  • The pastures are everywhere luxuriant, and the wooded heights and winding glens, in which the tangled shrubbery is here and there broken up by open glades and flat meadows of green turf, exhibit a beauty of vegetation such as is hardly to be seen in any other district of Palestine.

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  • The country in the vicinity of the large rivers is flat, and impenetrable from dense tangled jungle, with the exception of some very low-lying tracts which are either permanent marshes or are covered with water during the rains.

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