Example Sentences

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“Living here has untangled me from worldliness, from servitude, and from the degradation of woman’s lot in life.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight has untangled some of the knottier aspects of the criminal justice system in the past, including the public defender system.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2018

But then he has untangled himself, and is moving off with long strides toward something and somebody who is waiting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides sharing the general prosperity, Hearst has untangled himself from as complicated, a cat's cradle of corporate ties as ever kept a law firm out of mischief.

From Time Magazine Archive

Benjamin Sulte, the French-Canadian historian, in a series of papers for the Royal Society of Canada has untangled this confusion.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)