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How to use maze in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Maze means a labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through. Example: “This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.”

Examples of maze by meaning

nounA labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way...

  • Rain doesn't stop play, just head for the indoor fun factory with a rocking and rolling tugboat, mirror maze, ferris wheel and soft play.2012 May 30, Hayley Spurway, “Top 10 family days out in south Devon”, in the Guardian

nounSomething made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.

  • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
  • The project developer, Poseidon Resources Corp., has been winding its way through a maze of state and local agencies for six years2009 May 11, “Nation's largest desal project faces financing hurdles”, in New York Times

More sentences with maze

  • This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.From the entry nasty
  • Don’t push me into that maze and bewilder me.From the entry bewilder
  • Joe really knows his way around corn mazes.From the entry know one's way around
  • The book contains fifteen mind-bending mazes.From the entry mind-bending
  • At the Buddhaed heart of a small turf maze she's offered a toke.2023, Ian McDonald, Hopeland, New York, NY: Tor Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry Buddhaed
  • Behind its famous black door lies a maze of corridors, offices and reception rooms.2009, Dominic Varadi, The Credit Crunch Conspiracy, page 214. From the entry tardis
  • Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry.2007, Mike Monahan, Barracuda, page 107. From the entry corkscrew
  • In this case, the playfield is more disorienting and feels more like the maze that it is.2007, Friedrich von Borries, et al: Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism. From the entry playfield
  • Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze.2007, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando. From the entry Gormenghastian
  • The maze on the children's menu goes unwandered with the crayons the waitress brings in a cup.2001, Wendy Rawlings, Come Back Irish, page 92. From the entry unwandered
  • Worse yet, the right-hand rule does not work for all mazes.1989, William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge. From the entry right-hand rule
  • The applications were doubtless snowed under in the maze of official correspondence which avalanched the new government.1961, William Alexander Deans, chapter 9, in Muffled Drumbeats in the Congo, page 95. From the entry avalanche
  • In coronatimes, it was a moral maze., Arwa Mahdawi, “Going on holiday during the pandemic – it's just one big guilt trip”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry coronatimes
  • Like most good antique stores, a musty scent pervaded the crowded maze of furniture, knick-knacks, books, clothing, and other junque.2011, Wendy V, How to Eat a Pizza From a Can, page 100. From the entry junque
  • Afterward, I snowgo along the dunes, following a maze of wolf tracks west into the deep snow of an old burn.2008, Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska, →ISBN, page 166. From the entry snowgo
  • He wandered clewless in a maze of mystery.2007, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry clewless
  • Maze prison in Northern Ireland will see hundreds of acres of buildings bulldozered before crucial historical research has been carried out.2005 August 12, Angelique Chrisafis, “Archaeologist in plea to save the Maze from bulldozers”, in The Guardian. From the entry bulldozered
  • Situated on the lower end of the Bosporus, its maze of narrow streets and old wooden houses retain an Oriental flair.2000 October 8, Douglas Frantz, “Two Continents, Three Days”, in The New York Times. From the entry Uskudar
  • The comparative advantage the relearners gained from previous acquaintance with a particular maze vanished as the elapsed time approached six months.1981, Lee Joseph Cronbach, Richard E. Snow, Aptitudes and Instructional Methods, page 125. From the entry relearner
  • It rose in tiers, a maze of intricate wiring inset with black crystal, and surrounded by ladderways and balconies.1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 84. From the entry ladderway
  • For him Hinduism is a wearying maze of ununderstandability.1938, W[illiam] J[ohn] Grant, The Spirit of India, page 33. From the entry ununderstandability
  • The Hampton Court maze..may serve as the type of a compact and the Versailles example..that of a diffuse multicursal labyrinth.1922, W. H. Matthews, Mazes & Labyrinths, page xii. 185. From the entry multicursal
  • Once the nokehick was softened, they began hiking again, eating it as they moved east along an intertwined maze of Indian trails.2019, Pamela Roberts Lee, chapter 55, in The Darkness at Dawn, [Denver, Colo.]: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 456. From the entry nokehick
  • A typical demonstration of machine’s navigation abilities is the micromouse competition, in which a small rat-like mechanical robot explores a 16×16 maze.2016 February 10, “Intelligence-Augmented Rat Cyborgs in Maze Solving”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry micromouse
  • Welcome to the Ultimate Puzzle Challenge — a brand-new series of books for children who love word searches, crisscrosses, mazes, crosswords, and variety puzzles.2010, Helene Hovanec, Ultimate Puzzle Challenge: Mind Mashers, page 3. From the entry crisscross
  • In Beijing, near the Forbidden City, a winding maze of hutongs, or narrow alleyways, is home to one of the world’s most exotic markets.2007 October 16, Brice J. Bay, “Thanks, but I’ll have the bat on a stick instead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hutong
  • Ergonomics is a designer's lost art, and the modern high-end dashboard is a "why drive" random maze of soon-to-be-executive mispushes, misspins, and misslides.2004, Car and Driver - Volume 50, page 24. From the entry misspin
  • Automapping destroys the challenge imposed by mazes, but we think mazes are one of the most overused and least-enjoyed features of adventure games.2003, Andrew Rollings, Ernest Adams, Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on game design. From the entry automapping
  • I was angry with my bubble-brained antics and my waddlesome sloth, with my guides, with the thunder, with this stupid maze of rocks.2001, The Way of the Wanderer: Discover Your True Self Through Travel. From the entry bubble-brained
  • Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015…. From the entry Nanshi
  • The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities.1997, Nan Ellin, Architecture of fear, page 292. From the entry reinvigorate
  • Mix together a shoot-’em-up, a collect-’em-up and a maze game, add sundry reaction tests to taste and you’ve got a tasty game indeed.1988, “CRASH”, in magazine, number 50. From the entry shoot-'em-up
  • Happily this “button book of button books” by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent provides a convenient guide through the maze of buttonology.1949, Lillian Smith Albert, The Complete Button Book. From the entry buttonology
  • When a maze of silk threads was strung across a room, bats negotiated the maze at high speed without touching a thread.1947, Science Illustrated, volume 2, page 32. From the entry supersound
  • As the player munches through the dots, pills and spirits of the maze, Blinky is provided with extra speed, turning him into what is commonly known as 'Cruise Elroy'.2018, Alex Wade, The Pac-Man Principle: A User's Guide To Capitalism. From the entry Cruise Elroy
  • One day I watched a professor cover the blackboard with a maze of partial differential equations, and they might as well have been hieroglyphics from the Second Dynasty.2011, Paul Allen, “Wazzu”, in Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry Wazzu
  • Cheng had to pull the building back to be able to plant trees close to the property line, because of the maze of utility lines at streetside.2009 April 4, Donna Laporte, “Architect hopes to bring West Coast feel to Toronto”, in Toronto Star. From the entry streetside

Meaning of maze

  1. noun A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
  2. noun Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
  3. noun A confusion of thought; a state of bewilderment.

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Questions about maze in a sentence

How do you use maze in a sentence?
Maze is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.”
What is a short sentence with maze?
“The book contains fifteen mind-bending mazes.”
What does maze mean?
Maze means a labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.

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