All 11 Uses of
entangled
in
War and Peace
- Rostov also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache having become entangled in the saddle.†
Chpt 2
- Having disentangled his leg, he rose.†
Chpt 2 *
- From day to day he became more and more entangled.†
Chpt 6
- Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly.†
Chpt 7
- Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing the snuffbox in his hand, opened it and took a pinch.†
Chpt 7
- The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them.†
Chpt 7
- She told him that her only hope of getting their affairs disentangled now lay in his marrying Julie Karagina.†
Chpt 7
- It is your happiness I wish for," she added, feeling that she was telling an untruth and was becoming entangled.†
Chpt 7
- Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.†
Chpt 11
- When, intoxicated by the crimes he has committed so successfully, he reaches Paris, the dissolution of the republican government, which a year earlier might have ruined him, has reached its extreme limit, and his presence there now as a newcomer free from party entanglements can only serve to exalt him—and though he himself has no plan, he is quite ready for his new role.†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly the threads that moved them began to slacken and become entangled and it grew difficult to move.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(entangled as in: entangled in the branches) caught in
or:
twisted together into a confusing mass