Example Sentences

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She had learned to enjoy his presence and to miss him when absent, and when she began to question her heart she found that unconsciously it was entwining around him.

From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

The fire seemed to have taken possession of the whole of the highlands from east to west, and was entwining wood and forest, glen and ravine, in its snake-like embrace.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

Jack Morson, from the top of the step-ladder, was suspending a holly wreath above the door, while Champe was entwining the mahogany balustrade in running cedar.

From The Battle Ground by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Round the neck of the youth a light chain was entwining, The dagger had cleft it, she joined it again.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 by Various

When Time was entwining the garland of years,   Which to crown my beloved was given, Though some of the leaves might be sullied with tears,   Yet the flowers were all gathered in heaven.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael