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• She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.From the entry knot
• Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.From the entry tangle
• The darned rope has got tangled up.From the entry darned
• The overplayful kitten got tangled up in my knitting.From the entry overplayful
• It was the Paris of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s tangled lunchers and Gustave Caillebotte’s sauntering flâneur.2021 January 9, Kelsey Ables, “In [Edward] Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities”, in The…. From the entry la belle époque
• What should be straightforward details are now shrouded in fog, tangled by apocrypha.2020 June 8, Rory Smith, “The Shirts Were Red. The Fans Were All White.”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2020. From the entry apocrypha
• It’s the extended family in all its tangled, loving, exhausting glory.2020 February 10, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic. From the entry extended family
• That triangle of tangled undergrowth was infested with clothes-grabbing burdocks (“buzzies” we called them) and beggar's ticks.2015, Jim Bennet, South End Boy: Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s, →ISBN. From the entry buzzie
• Before that, it was as if the pull cord was tangled.2015 June 25, Joe R[owan], “Power washer with Honda engine won't start.”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet). From the entry mucho thankso
• “I'll win!” Humble Worm gets tangled in a labyrinth of roots.2014, Celia Warren, Don't Poke a Worm till it Wiggles. From the entry wormly
• I also heard Yow's boots later that night after a particularly tangled stagedive.2014, The Jesus Lizard Book, page 163. From the entry stagedive
• It's a draw!” Polly hung tangled in the net, coughing and spluttering.2014 November 20, Matt and Dave, Yuck's Fantastic Football Match, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry football match
• He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle.2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 35. From the entry switchgrass
• As a result of Treemageddon, the power lines all over the tri-state area are a tangled mess.2010 March 18, David Pogue, “A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power”, in The New York Times. From the entry treemageddon
• Two muscular merguards twisted my arms behind my back and tangled my legs in seaweed.2009, Delia Sherman, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry merguard
• From the tangled pile of ugliness snarled on the bed, Sherry gleefully pulled a pair of Mrs.2009, Jennifer Crane, Coopers Crossing, →ISBN, page 256. From the entry houseslipper
• The trumpeters' fate seems likely to get tangled with that of the mute swan.1998, Bob Devine, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants. From the entry trumpeter
• Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 174. From the entry wise man
• He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag.1960, The Skipper, volume 20, page 44. From the entry two-block
• Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung.1944, Emily Carr, “Meg the Worker”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry barb
• It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.1923 March, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi]…. From the entry skein
• Too impatient to unravel the tangled knot, he had cut it, and nothing could mend it now.1914 May, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “Cutting the Tangled Knot”, in Their Mutual Child [The Coming of Bill], New York, N.Y.: Boni and…. From the entry unravel
• He looked down at the tangled wet hair, the wild, bare, animal shoulders.1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas…. From the entry animal
• Compared to the last time they'd tangled with the U.S.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry tangle
• Her tangled hair would take a magician to uncomb.2015, Virginia Gavian Rivers, Prelude to Genocide: Incident in Erzerum, →ISBN. From the entry uncomb
• As my brain continued to unfog, I realized I wasn't tangled up in blankets but tied to a chair.2012, Anastasia Pollack, Death by Killer Mop Doll. From the entry unfog
• Martius found most dressed in bits of clothing, their hair wildly tangled and their faces dyed red with urucum.2006, William Bryant, The Birds of Paradise: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life, page 67. From the entry urucum
• “Powerful magic and tangled, dragonborn,” the Shepherd woman said.2006, Murray J. D. Leeder, Son of Thunder, page 220. From the entry dragonborn
• The connections between boats are tangled and unpredictable.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 322. From the entry all over the place
• My purpose in this article is to untease that tangled web of philosophy and science which constitutes cognitive science.1989, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. From the entry untease
• So do human beings, their undebuggable programs replaced by younger, possibly less tangled, ones in other human heads.1983, Herbert A[lexander] Simon, “Why Should Machines Learn?”, in Ryszard S[tanisław] Michalski, Jaime G[uillermo] Carbonell, Tom…. From the entry undebuggability
• Flowers grow here as they will, lilies of the valley, wild garlic and fraise du bois all tangled up together.1968, Mary Hayley Bell, What Shall We Do Tomorrow?, London: Cassell, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry fraise du bois
• Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11. From the entry garden
• I looked out the door, and they were struggling with the gnome which was tangled in its own wiring.1949 December 2, Tom Jarvis, “Busted, Stolen Gnome No Longer Lights Home”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume LXIV, number 52, Vancouver, B.C.…. From the entry gnomicide
• Sharp shinned and Cooper's hawks dash through the woods after small birds, steering between tangled limbs with their rudder -like tails.1946, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina, N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, page 28. From the entry midair
• Off this landing and over the studio was a dark cobwebby place, tangled with wiring, plumbing, ventilation and mystery.1944, Emily Carr, “Attic Eagles”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry cobwebby
• It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings.1914, May Sinclair, The Three Sisters. From the entry interfuse
• A swatch of hair, cleaned with a cosmetic treatment (shampoo, conditioner, etc.), is wetted, combed and then tangled according to a standardized protocol.2014, Gustavo S. Luengo, Anthony Galliano, Claude Dubief, “Aqueous Lubrication in Cosmetics”, in Nicholas D. Spencer, editor, Aqueous…. From the entry swatch
• After bathing, he sat on his bed and wished desperately that he could forget the night's illusion of tangled legs, palmable breasts, and husky laughs.2014, Katherine Woodbury, Richard: The Ethics of Affection, page 13. From the entry palmable
• The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War…. From the entry boxer

Meaning of tangled

1. adjective Mixed up, interlaced.
2. adjective Intricate.

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How do you use tangled in a sentence?

Tangled is used as an adjective. For example: “She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.”

What is a short sentence with tangled?

“The darned rope has got tangled up.”

What does tangled mean?

Tangled means mixed up, interlaced.