Example Sentences

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The aim is “to confuse, to confuse, nothing more . . . to introduce into the case some other, unrelated circumstances that will entangle other people in it, to make it complicated.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2017

With those words, President Kennedy last week launched his Administration on a campaign that will entangle it with many special interest groups, and require all his political skill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether I shall be answerable for the scandal, or whether my opponents will entangle themselves in the scandal, will appear later.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Bache, Constance

But just begin to reason, and he will entangle you in argument until you find yourself badly perplexed, unless, like the Master, you give him a sharp rebuke and command him to take his departure.

From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by Byrum, E. E.

Like as not, now, some toe-dancing stripling of a retiarius will entangle me in his net this very afternoon, and no mercy signal has been or will be given this day.

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)