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Example sentences for "entangle"

Lexicographically close words:
entablatures; entail; entailed; entailing; entails; entangled; entanglement; entanglements; entangles; entangling
  1. What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments!

  2. Tristram, not sufficient, but thou must entangle thyself still more?

  3. In the formulas it is frequently invoked to entangle in its threads the soul of a victim whom the conjurer desires to bring under his evil spells.

  4. Of course you are too much of an Atwood to entangle yourself with such people and spoil your prospects for life.

  5. Yet she would watch, she said, that matters went no further than just to shake off a whining first love; for the last thing upon earth she intended was to entangle her in a second.

  6. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.

  7. After a few more questions of little moment, the priest threw out the usual net with which his fraternity were wont to entangle those of heretical opinions.

  8. Paslew saw with dismay the dark gulf which yawned on either hand, and the net so craftily prepared to entangle him.

  9. It is my faith in this which relieves me of many of those speculative difficulties which entangle so many others.

  10. To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.

  11. To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

  12. To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.

  13. Then we tried to entangle their feet with slip loops just as we trapped gulls.

  14. Other loops were arranged to entangle the feet.

  15. There is a large spider in South America, who constructs nets of so strong a texture as to entangle small birds, particularly the humming bird.

  16. Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

  17. A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.

  18. Instead of a simple renewal of our mutual obligations, you wish to entangle us into alliances with Turkey!

  19. I know that Paul hates me, but I do not believe that Prussia is his ally; for it is clearly the interest of Prussia to conciliate me, and he is too wise to entangle himself in such conspiracies just at the expiration of our treaty.

  20. Even Miss Laura Hawkins thought it worth while to use her fascinations upon him, and to endeavor to entangle the volatile fellow in the meshes of her attractions.

  21. Sometimes Laura was exceedingly kind and petted him a little, and took the trouble to exert her powers of pleasing, and to entangle him deeper and deeper.

  22. We will not entangle the reader here with the vexed and intricate question of the names, identity, and inter-relationships of the various Germanic tribes.

  23. Evidently the Solicitor is beating the bush to start some game, and will be satisfied with a 'mare's nest,' if he can only entangle the Attorney General in it.

  24. Moreover, All those who have been so hasty to buy and sell the Commonwealth's Land, and so to entangle it upon a new accompt, ought neither to choose nor be chosen Officers.

  25. As soon as you have freed the Earth from one entanglement of Kingly Power, will you entangle it more?

  26. On the one hand, to entangle Frank into marriage with this foreigner, the squire could never forgive him.

  27. I have already said," replied De Blenau, "that I shall reply to no such questions, the object of which is alone to entangle me.

  28. Instead, therefore, of coming forward, as Francis hoped, instead of consenting to entangle himself again in the meshes of diplomatic intrigue, the king returned a peremptory refusal.

  29. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law.

  30. It is not, then, from a want of friendship that we do not propose a treaty with Naples, but because it is against our system to embarrass ourselves with treaties, or to entangle ourselves at all with the affairs of Europe.

  31. Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe.

  32. The guanacoes are taken with the bolas, which entangle their legs and throw them down.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entangle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.