All 3 Uses of
entangled
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and is now desirous of getting those letters back.†
Chpt 1
- Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries.†
Chpt 1
- But that my girl should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more than I could suffer.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(entangled as in: entangled in the branches) caught in
or:
twisted together into a confusing mass