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How to use the word tangled in a Sentence?

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Lies create more lies, which spawn even more lies, leading to a tangled web of deceit. So, why lie in the first place, only to perpetuate a cycle of falsehoods.

– Christen Kuikoua

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3 days ago

You also want lots of room for tumbling inside your dryer — less is more, and you definitely don’t want to put too many pieces of gear in there because they will get all tangled together.

– Haley Huggins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I served, that’s really all it came down to. I guess I didn’t give him many opportunities to spin his web and get me tangled up in it. If I got embroiled in too many rallies with him, it just wasn’t going to go well for me. I had an incredible serving day and I needed every single bit of it to beat him.

– John Isner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A couple of times, I almost got killed, being tangled, luckily, I was able to be freed by my buddies.

– Harry Chan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She would take a bed sheet and wrap it around her hair, and go up the stairs and throw the sheet down the stairs, this is when' Tangled' came out. She was always the princess.

– Jamie Alexander

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Hunter Biden’s tangled web of shell companies, LLCs, investment vehicles, and options agreements make it virtually impossibleto know where he is getting income from.

– Thomas Anderson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive.

– Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)

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3 years ago

I'm fine but it was just frustrating, it was a key moment in the race. ( Michael) Woods crashed and took out Giant( Moscow) and me and I just got tangled in Giant's bike.

– Thomas De Gendt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Trust is an issue, starting from zero, the two Koreas have a tangled history and have repeatedly accused each other of breaking agreements. You can't just say there is now trust and deliver trust. It has to be developed.

– John Delury

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I was informed that Finn had been causing some chaos as he chased a deer along the road, through the hospital grounds and back onto the road. They tangled for a bit, up and over a guard rail and down onto the ice … eventually the deer got away and Finn gave up the chase.

– Reid Thompson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I originally just gave her a crew cut because I did n’t know how, and it was all tangled and I could n’t get it out for anything.

– Philip Pieri

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.

– Jack BarskyRead MoreJack Barsky

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I turn around and I see my son tangled up in a lead rope and a cow running down the drive way, at that point, he had already been stomped on.

– George Carter

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

For too long, plastic bags have clogged our storm drains, littered our greenspaces and tangled our trees.

– City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We should reform it, if it's to be used as a deterrent, it has to be reformed. It can't take 25 years. That does no one any good. Neither the victims nor the state is solving this problem with that kind of tangled judicial process.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

(Sprinter) Usain Bolt is the most tested athlete, male or female, in any sport on the planet. Reality and perception often get badly tangled, we take this very very seriously and we need to make sure that the public believe what they watch in a stadium is legitimate.

– The Briton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

– Remy de Gourmont

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

– Rudyard Kipling

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10 years ago

Oh what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive / But when by chance our deception proves true / The web we've wove is burst clear through

– John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

– Sir Walter Scott

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13 years ago

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

– Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.

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13 years ago

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

– Laurence J. Peter

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

– Ogden Nash

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."

– John Rocco Savalli

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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