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Meanings of tangle in English
Usage of tangle in English
1
And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
2
It is the same affair; part and parcel of the same tangle.
3
The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
4
The lane ended just beyond in a tangle of weeds and undergrowth.
5
Things are in a sad tangle; I can't see the way out.
6
Telephone and telegraph wires depend in a loose tangle from the poles.
7
Then they saw another girl standing in the tangle of wild grapes.
8
Despite huge international success, that tangle-haired teenage maverick hasn't changed a jot.
9
And we absolutely don't want to tangle with that much tribal infantry.
10
He felt it tugging at the line while he unknotted the tangle.
11
The house lay silent, half smothered in a dark tangle of shrubbery.
12
The conducting wires break, and cross, and tangle in every imaginable fashion.
13
She was his only hope of getting out of this tangle alive.
14
We know that we move in a tangle of intrigues and espionage.
15
A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
16
Perhaps I might have served in unravelling this unhappy tangle of misunderstandings.
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Tangle through the time
Tangle across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common