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Definition of tangled in English: tangledadjective ˈtaŋɡldˈtæŋɡ(ə)ld 1Twisted together untidily; matted. his hair was a tangled mess Example sentencesExamples - His installations, made of scrap objects and tied up with tangled roping, dominate the landscape.
- Her hair was now a tangled mess from the numerous run-throughs with her hands.
- The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair.
- Men lay wounded and dying amid the tangled rigging.
- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman was lying in a tangled heap several feet below the stage of Sydney's Metro Theatre.
- Cut out any dead or weak wood, and all tangled branches.
- Near sunset, flocks of white and black egrets flew in to settle in the tangled mangrove branches above.
- The installations were accompanied by small nature paintings, a tangled root clump in one, a water lily in another.
- Beside him, the Indian girl came partway awake, batting a clot of tangled hair from her face.
- The tangled steel frameworks of several of the toppled radio towers were also lying near me.
- I bend down to give her a kiss, pulling back the tangled mesh of her black hair.
- He ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at his feet.
- Entire villages had been reduced to tangled scrap heaps of rubble.
- A good metaphor for this complexity is a large, tangled ball of string.
- By now the path has degraded into the faintest of trails, partly hidden by leaves, obscured sometimes entirely by masses of tangled roots.
- Researchers have long known that fish often mature in the murky saltwater amid the tangled labyrinths of roots created by mangroves.
- This machine arrived as a heap of tangled metal and over a five-year period was transformed into a fine example of authentic restoration.
- The world seems knitting itself in a tangled thread of the words of war.
- Lying in the tangled mass of DNA is the chemical roadmap by which the biological past made it to the present.
- There's an old black man, an aborigine, with long, tangled dreadlocks, kneeling at the edge of the pit.
- She lay tangled in her blanket, one arm hiding her face.
Synonyms ravelled, entangled, snarled, snarled up, entwined, intertwisted, twisted, knotted, knotty, enmeshed, coiled, matted, tangly, messy, muddled - 1.1 Complicated and confused; chaotic.
the tangled relationships between Ryan and Marissa, and Seth and Summer Example sentencesExamples - The tangled evidence indicates that Crazy Horse favored a breakout to reunite with Sitting Bull.
- And, as a melodrama about broken friendships and tangled family relationships, it only does the job some of the time.
- He doesn't name a specific place, a specific society, or a particular world for Mozart's tangled love game.
- The soldiers will be from local militias and local reserves, with all the tangled politics that implies.
- It's a feud that's much too tangled to unravel in an op-ed piece.
- The problem is this is all so tangled and mucky, I'm not sure what the legal issues actually are anymore.
- I scribbled notes and hoped for some insight into the tangled mass of problems I had made my life's work.
- Terry rails against Jack's indifference and desperately tries to salvage some kind of relationship from the tangled chaos.
- The affair is a very tangled one.
- They're locked in a feedback loop, a tangled form of denial.
- The range of characters results in a number of subplots that interweave to create a tangled story arc.
- Drawing on an exhaustive and tangled corpus of material, Kinney examines the many facets of these enterprises.
- To pretty much anyone this lot represents a bewildering, tangled, confused maze of information.
- And there is nothing more cheaply entertaining than a friend with a tangled love life.
- Set in the world of publishing, Pinter's play lays bare the tangled relationships of its three main characters together with all the hurts of a long-standing affair.
- To me, the right result seems clear, even though the facts are complicated and the legal history is tangled.
- The rest of the narrative is a tangled mess that sacrifices development of any kind at the altar of spectacular setpieces.
- The truth of course is that sex is more potent than politics, even the tangled politics of royalty.
Synonyms confused, jumbled, mixed up, messy, chaotic, scrambled, complicated, involved, convoluted, complex, intricate, knotty, tortuous, devious, maze-like, labyrinthine
PhrasesA complex, difficult, and confusing situation or thing. Example sentencesExamples - But with official records locked away for many years to come and her life shrouded in a tangled web of secrecy, the real truth has probably died with her.
- While in Mexico to retrieve an overdue debt, he finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love, passion and betrayal.
- Rather than enter into the labyrinth of that debate, I would prefer to argue that it shows what a tangled web we weave whenever we import private profit into a public service.
- I'm one of those people that believes decisions are rarely black and white, but rather are a tangled web of possibilities, opportunities, and consequences.
- Instead, it has become a tangled web of bureaucracy, with unprecedented powers afforded to the Minister.
- The whole situation had been a tangled web, but after everything that had occurred, he knew that for the sake of family and for the sake of a child, he knew he would have to go back.
- The trial threatened to, and in the event did, unmask a tangled web of conflicting engagements between government departments.
- I didn't mention that I had dated a total of one guy, had a disastrous event with two others and was in a tangled web of confusion with a third.
- It may be the most complex structure in the universe, a tangled web of more than a hundred billion nerve cells.
- He stars as the hard-bitten ex-cop who gets drawn into a tangled web of drugs, murder, and ultimately, revenge.
Definition of tangled in US English: tangledadjectiveˈtaNGɡ(ə)ldˈtæŋɡ(ə)ld 1Twisted together untidily; matted. his hair was a tangled mess Example sentencesExamples - I bend down to give her a kiss, pulling back the tangled mesh of her black hair.
- This machine arrived as a heap of tangled metal and over a five-year period was transformed into a fine example of authentic restoration.
- The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair.
- Entire villages had been reduced to tangled scrap heaps of rubble.
- The installations were accompanied by small nature paintings, a tangled root clump in one, a water lily in another.
- A good metaphor for this complexity is a large, tangled ball of string.
- Her hair was now a tangled mess from the numerous run-throughs with her hands.
- There's an old black man, an aborigine, with long, tangled dreadlocks, kneeling at the edge of the pit.
- Men lay wounded and dying amid the tangled rigging.
- Near sunset, flocks of white and black egrets flew in to settle in the tangled mangrove branches above.
- Cut out any dead or weak wood, and all tangled branches.
- The tangled steel frameworks of several of the toppled radio towers were also lying near me.
- He ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at his feet.
- By now the path has degraded into the faintest of trails, partly hidden by leaves, obscured sometimes entirely by masses of tangled roots.
- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman was lying in a tangled heap several feet below the stage of Sydney's Metro Theatre.
- Researchers have long known that fish often mature in the murky saltwater amid the tangled labyrinths of roots created by mangroves.
- Beside him, the Indian girl came partway awake, batting a clot of tangled hair from her face.
- The world seems knitting itself in a tangled thread of the words of war.
- Lying in the tangled mass of DNA is the chemical roadmap by which the biological past made it to the present.
- She lay tangled in her blanket, one arm hiding her face.
- His installations, made of scrap objects and tied up with tangled roping, dominate the landscape.
Synonyms ravelled, entangled, snarled, snarled up, entwined, intertwisted, twisted, knotted, knotty, enmeshed, coiled, matted, tangly, messy, muddled - 1.1 Complicated and confused; chaotic.
the tangled relationships between Ryan and Marissa, and Seth and Summer Example sentencesExamples - Terry rails against Jack's indifference and desperately tries to salvage some kind of relationship from the tangled chaos.
- Set in the world of publishing, Pinter's play lays bare the tangled relationships of its three main characters together with all the hurts of a long-standing affair.
- The range of characters results in a number of subplots that interweave to create a tangled story arc.
- To pretty much anyone this lot represents a bewildering, tangled, confused maze of information.
- The affair is a very tangled one.
- The problem is this is all so tangled and mucky, I'm not sure what the legal issues actually are anymore.
- The soldiers will be from local militias and local reserves, with all the tangled politics that implies.
- Drawing on an exhaustive and tangled corpus of material, Kinney examines the many facets of these enterprises.
- The rest of the narrative is a tangled mess that sacrifices development of any kind at the altar of spectacular setpieces.
- The tangled evidence indicates that Crazy Horse favored a breakout to reunite with Sitting Bull.
- It's a feud that's much too tangled to unravel in an op-ed piece.
- They're locked in a feedback loop, a tangled form of denial.
- To me, the right result seems clear, even though the facts are complicated and the legal history is tangled.
- He doesn't name a specific place, a specific society, or a particular world for Mozart's tangled love game.
- And there is nothing more cheaply entertaining than a friend with a tangled love life.
- I scribbled notes and hoped for some insight into the tangled mass of problems I had made my life's work.
- And, as a melodrama about broken friendships and tangled family relationships, it only does the job some of the time.
- The truth of course is that sex is more potent than politics, even the tangled politics of royalty.
Synonyms confused, jumbled, mixed up, messy, chaotic, scrambled, complicated, involved, convoluted, complex, intricate, knotty, tortuous, devious, maze-like, labyrinthine
PhrasesA complex, difficult, and confusing situation or thing. Example sentencesExamples - The trial threatened to, and in the event did, unmask a tangled web of conflicting engagements between government departments.
- I didn't mention that I had dated a total of one guy, had a disastrous event with two others and was in a tangled web of confusion with a third.
- But with official records locked away for many years to come and her life shrouded in a tangled web of secrecy, the real truth has probably died with her.
- The whole situation had been a tangled web, but after everything that had occurred, he knew that for the sake of family and for the sake of a child, he knew he would have to go back.
- It may be the most complex structure in the universe, a tangled web of more than a hundred billion nerve cells.
- He stars as the hard-bitten ex-cop who gets drawn into a tangled web of drugs, murder, and ultimately, revenge.
- Rather than enter into the labyrinth of that debate, I would prefer to argue that it shows what a tangled web we weave whenever we import private profit into a public service.
- Instead, it has become a tangled web of bureaucracy, with unprecedented powers afforded to the Minister.
- I'm one of those people that believes decisions are rarely black and white, but rather are a tangled web of possibilities, opportunities, and consequences.
- While in Mexico to retrieve an overdue debt, he finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love, passion and betrayal.
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