Sample sentences for INTRICATE

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Definition

complicated — having many complexly arranged elements

She came up with an intricate plan.

intricate = complicated — having many complexly arranged elements

The tablecloth has intricate lacework.

intricate = complex

The law in that area is intricate. I suggest you talk with a lawyer.

intricate = complicated

She did not remember hitting the windshield, but it looked like a spiderweb, the intricate lines fanning out, delicate, beautiful, and precise.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

intricate = numerous and complexly arranged

The dancers were in a crowd, so you did not see the intricate play of the feet.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

intricate = complicated

I just didn't realize your dad had the ability to make something so intricate.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song

intricate = complicated — having many complexly arranged elements

The perimeter of the camp was marked by intricate patterns of barbed wire barriers.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

intricate = complicated — having many complexly arranged elements

...he launches into an intricate ballroom dance step.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

intricate = complicated — having many complexly arranged elements

But a stranger wouldn't notice, Paul wouldn't; from these images alone no one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Coral, he realized, from the trip to Aruba, brain coral with its flesh receded, leaving only the intricate skeletal framework.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
She walked through the foyer with its high ceilings and intricate mosaic floor and climbed two flights of stairs.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
He had given it up, art and craft, the intricate and exhausting task of trying to transform the world into something else, to turn the body into the world and the world into the body.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
A whole series of scherenschnitte, intricate paper cuttings of mothers with children, of children playing beneath shady trees, delicate and full of motion, were mounted against midnight blue, framed and hung on the far wall.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
They were a little like the snowflakes he'd cut out in school, but infinitely more intricate and detailed, showing entire scenes to the last detail: the state fair, a tidy living room before a fire, a picnic with exploding fireworks.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
David remembered the glint of the scalpel as he made the episiotomy, how he'd floated out of himself to watch the scene from above, how the events of that night had set his life in motion, one thing leading to another, doors opening where none had been and others closing, until he reached this particular moment, with a stranger seeking the intricate design hidden in her paper and waiting for him to answer, and there was nothing he could do and nowhere he might go.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
"You look beautiful, Ames," she says, reaching up to touch the intricate high collar of my dress.
Kiera Cass -- The One
The columns were taller, more intricately painted.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
With this money as capital, she began to "trade," buying, selling, laying down options, in an intricate and bewildering web.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
Only hard wooden floors and an intricate, diamond-shaped design in the middle of the ceiling.
An Na -- A Step from Heaven
A procession of intricately etched pinwheels and big-nosed cartoon figures floated across the backs of my eyelids in neon hues.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

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