Sample Sentences for
intricate
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    "Here it is!" he said, and handed to Thorin a key with a long barrel and intricate wards, made of silver.  (source)
    intricate = complex
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    She did not remember hitting the windshield, but it looked like a spiderweb, the intricate lines fanning out, delicate, beautiful, and precise.  (source)
    intricate = numerous and complexly arranged
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    The dancers were in a crowd, so you did not see the intricate play of the feet.  (source)
    intricate = complicated
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    Even the guards had abandoned the courtyard, though the intricate iron gate remained locked.†  (source)
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    She was wearing a dress that reminded me of the West African-inspired kente cloth attire I had seen in the States, but hers was an intricately meshed pattern of black and white, the traditional Xhosa colors.†  (source)
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    I then fell into a contemplation of the secret springs of Providence, and how wonderfully we are delivered, when insensible of it; and when intricated in uncertain mazes or labyrinths of doubt or hesitation, what secret hint directs us in the right way, when we intended to go out of it, nay, perhaps contrary to our business, sense or inclination.†  (source)
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    It was some relief, however, that they were to return to the rooms in common use, by passing through a few of less importance, looking into the court, which, with occasional passages, not wholly unintricate, connected the different sides;†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintricate means not and reverses the meaning of intricate. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Thick rugs with intricate patterns covered half the floor, while the other half was raw cement.†  (source)
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    Heavy curtains draped elegantly from fat mahogany curtain poles, and the floors were carpeted with intricately decorated Persian rugs.†  (source)
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    Intricate mosaic tiles, handpicked by Baba in Isfahan, covered the floors of the four bathrooms.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Nielsen teaches me to needlepoint; while she's making intricately detailed pillows for the sofa, I work on the floral cover for a stool.†  (source)
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    Inside, intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel.†  (source)
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    A procession of intricately etched pinwheels and big-nosed cartoon figures floated across the backs of my eyelids in neon hues.†  (source)
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