Sample Sentences for

entangled

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Stone and soil and the roots of heather and shrubs all entangled.  (source) David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, 1999

He was up like lightning and pulling me with him but, though my head and shoulders were free, I was so entangled we didn't get very far.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

He squatted in the snow, pulling the twigs out from their entanglement in the brush and feeding directly to the flame.  (source) Jack London, To Build a Fire, 1908

"All right," said Finny as he disentangled us.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

The wire entanglements are torn to pieces.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

The men disentangle themselves from each other, climb down from their bunks, and shuffle outside.†  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

Hiro raises the tip and slaps at the spear with the side of the blade, diverting it just enough; it goes into a slow sideways spin, the point missing Hiro just barely and entangling itself in a vine on Hiro's right.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

Like Sinatra, Marilyn is a snare that could easily entangle Kennedy and bring down his presidency.†  (source) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy, 2012

Disentangling myself from Kamal's embrace, I answer.†  (source) Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, 2015

Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.—HEBREWS 12.1-2†  (source) Tim Tebow, Through My Eyes, 2011

Josh disentangles himself from Kitty and plops down on the couch.†  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

Passing such an ambiguously worded law will entangle businesses in uncertainty and law suits.

Loyalties became hopelessly entangled.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

But McCandless never mentioned any romantic entanglements to either Westerberg or Borah.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Every evil which entangled him was cut to pieces.  (source) Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977

Buoyed up, I forgot my usual feeling of routine self-pity when working out, I lost myself, oppressed mind along with aching body; all entanglements were shed, I broke into the clear.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Talking to him was largely a matter of getting him away from such subjects and entangling him, if possible, in the technicalities of Newspeak, on which he was authoritative and interesting.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Now, on the rebound from my calamitous entanglement with the nordwand, I was prepared to lower my sights.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814