Explore Entangle through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mire or distort. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Entangle in a sentence
Related words
Entangle meaning
- To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
- To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
- To ensnare.
Entangle vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Entangle
- The main meaning on this page is: To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated. | To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult. | To ensnare.
- Useful related words include: mire, unsnarl, distort, twine.
- Possible Dutch translations are: verstrikken, verwikkelen.
- In the example corpus, entangle often appears in combinations such as: to entangle, entangle the, lives entangle.
Context around Entangle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Entangle
- In this selection, "entangle" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lives, labe, females, crocodiles, peace and themselves stand out and add context to how "entangle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to entangle the darkly and and females entangle their tentacles. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "entangle" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with entangle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sites of crossing over entangle together, effectively overlapping, making chiasmata clearly visible. (12 words)
The enemy is so vulnerable that we can entangle it from across the border. (14 words)
Her martyred sister’s ghost appears, time starts behaving strangely and all these lives entangle. (15 words)
It can protect 90% of the frontal area of the helicopter from wire strikes that can be encountered at low altitudes by directing wires to the upper or lower blades before they can entangle the rotor blade or landing skids. (40 words)
Their lives entangle as they skip those appointments, start to date and break up only to realize that the initial appointment they had both missed was a blind date where they would have been introduced to one another. (38 words)
A hand rosary is a decade in a complete loop, with one bead separated from ten other beads, this is meant to be carried while walking or running, so as not to entangle the larger type. (36 words)
What about when pubes from one labium/labii/labe entangle with the other causing a temporary labial fusion? (18 words)
Example sentences (18)
Officers can use devices for tire entrapment (for instance, nets that entangle a vehicle’s tire and axle) and tire deflation (spike strips).
Their lives entangle as they skip those appointments, start to date and break up only to realize that the initial appointment they had both missed was a blind date where they would have been introduced to one another.
All the rigging, along with their sails, might be doused with various materials both to stoke the flames and to entangle with the target ship.
Dark comic misery master Todd Solondz's, screening here in 35mm, is a testament to his ability to entangle the darkly disturbing with the somehow hilarious.
What about when pubes from one labium/labii/labe entangle with the other causing a temporary labial fusion?
The licensed Bote fishermen are not allowed by the national park to use longer nets which would entangle crocodiles, and also make fishing unsustainable.
To move forward, therefore, the UN must solve some of the contradictions, in terms of capacity, ambitions and finances, that tend to entangle peace operations.
Its name refers to the courtship behaviour in which males and females entangle their tentacles and swim as a couple.
While not allowing the White House to entangle them in lengthy court battles, Democrats should muster as much evidence as readily can be gathered.
As many more African women jump on the bandwagon to entangle their daily speech with the language of feminism, the more fluent they become in demanding gender equality.
Her martyred sister’s ghost appears, time starts behaving strangely and all these lives entangle.
The enemy is so vulnerable that we can entangle it from across the border.
A hand rosary is a decade in a complete loop, with one bead separated from ten other beads, this is meant to be carried while walking or running, so as not to entangle the larger type.
Certain sea cucumbers have a cluster of cuvierian tubules which can be ejected as long sticky threads from their anus and entangle and permanently disable an attacker.
His tour gained international praise at a time when few politicians dared to entangle themselves in the politics of South Africa.
It can protect 90% of the frontal area of the helicopter from wire strikes that can be encountered at low altitudes by directing wires to the upper or lower blades before they can entangle the rotor blade or landing skids.
Sites of crossing over entangle together, effectively overlapping, making chiasmata clearly visible.
The crossings were doubly treacherous because there were often hidden holes in the river bottom which could overturn the wagon or entangle the team, sometimes with fatal consequences.
Common combinations with entangle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: