tangle
verb (used with object)
to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
Example Sentences
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Obviously there’s a whole mess of tangly bits to deal with here, and entire fields of academic study, often deeply bound to their time and place, are devoted to hollering about what counts as adaptation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Instead, he is seeking to harness the city’s tangly dynamism.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
What You’ll Need: 14 solid feet of tangly crimson beard-age.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 30, 2018
Brewin: There are all these tangly lianas, you know, vines and things like that — very deep leaf litter in the forest areas.
From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018
He’s so close I could run my fingers through his shiny, tangly brown hair, run them across the faint spidery wrinkles that fan out at his temples, across the dark worrying shadows beneath.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
