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Meanings of hopeless tangle in English

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Usage of hopeless tangle in English
1
Higher and higher the jam towered, the interlocking logs piling in hopeless tangle.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
2
It was rather a hopeless tangle, and once more I gave it up.
Indiscreet Letters From Peking / Being the Notes of an Eye-Witne...
3
Otherwise we become involved in a hopeless tangle of conjectures.
The Books of the New Testament
4
The street car situation was in a hopeless tangle.
The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement
5
It described aspects of the Trump administration as a " hopeless tangle of pathologies".
The Irish Times
6
In a trice the rest of the dogs, pulled up abruptly, were in a hopeless tangle.
The Cryptogram: A Story of Northwest Canada
7
Trigonometry rapidly became a hopeless tangle to her; Ancient History a stupid jumble of unrelated dates.
Lydia of the Pines
8
Bob cast back the eye of his recollection to the hopeless tangle that cumbered the ground.
The Rules of the Game
9
The whole case seemed a hopeless tangle.
Little Miss By-The-Day
10
It was all a hopeless tangle, and the more I thought about it the more discouraged did I become.
The Green Eyes of Bâst
11
All the pieces were intertwined by the shaking process, and they lay as they fell, in a hopeless tangle.
Homespun Tales
12
We made no answer, but the bed I contrived to make under his watching eyes was a hopeless tangle.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
13
He was trying desperately to think, to straighten out this hopeless tangle in his brain, but everything was confused.
The Second Honeymoon
14
In its answer lies one reason that America remembers her with such a hopeless tangle of pride and shame.
The new yorker
15
Slidell and I were in a hopeless tangle, still propped against the upended chair as we fought for the gun.
The sailcloth shroud
16
And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go?
The Golden House
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