was entangling
- past progressive of entangle.
Example Sentences
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A main cause was entangling alliances among failing empires which had provided stability for many long years but were no longer able to keep the peace.
From Fox News ● Nov. 12, 2018
"The web of our own fuzzy thinking was entangling us more and more when I was privileged to be present during the only true flash of genius I've ever witnessed."
From The Moralist by Taylor, Jack
On emerging, however, below the cloud, the first object that loomed out of the mist immediately below us was a cargo vessel, in the rigging of which our trail rope was entangling itself.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie
He knew very well that he was entangling her in helpless humiliation: it was another way of smiling at her ironically, and taking the air of a supercilious mentor.
From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George
I knew indeed now, even as Willersley had prophesied five years before, that I was entangling myself in something that might smother all my uses in the world.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
