All 4 Uses of
intricate
in
Childhood's End
- Karellen was doing almost all the talking, weaving the intricate sentences which he was occasionally prone to use.†
Chpt 4 *
- The trade routes that had once converged on the great harbours, and later on the great airports, had finally dispersed into an intricate web-work covering the whole world with no major nodal points.†
Chpt 9
- The great, many-faceted crystals stood grouped in intricate geometrical patterns, motionless in the eras of cold, growing slowly along the veins of mineral when the world was warm again.†
Chpt 18
- What thoughts, Jan wolidered, were echoing through the intricate network in which their minds were now no more-and yet no less-than the separate threads of some great tapestry?†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(intricate) complicated -- having many complexly arranged elements