The notion of a tree precedes that of counting leaves or disentangling branches.
But his contrivances for the entangling and disentangling his plot are often improbable and forced, without gaining over the imagination by their attractive boldness.
Still it is in the entangling and disentangling their plots that the English comic writers are least deserving of praise.
The true and the false, the old and the new, the essential and the unimportant, are so mixed up together, that the highest praise we can bestow upon him is, that he is worthy of the labour of disentangling them.
The difficulty, however, of disentangling Evangelicalism from Methodism in the early phases of both confronts us at once when we begin to consider the cases of individuals.
You would have thought the islanders were on the point of flying at one another’s throats, whereas they were only amicably engaged in disentangling their boats.
If a man spent as much labour in disentangling the cousinship of the royal families of ancient Egypt, he would be venerated as a scholar in five continents.
On every boat men are busy emptying the nets, disentangling the fish that have been caught by the gills, tumbling them in a liquid mass into the bottom of the boat.
The next few days were spent in gathering fresh impressions and disentangling bewildering experiences, and in small encounters with the unanswerable will of his host.
There had been a woman and a tangle of events, and his passion-blinded eyes could see no way of disentangling it, and yet how trivial and easy the unravelling appeared now.
I found him engaged in the seemingly difficult operation of disentangling a luxuriant crop of very long hair, which had somehow--possibly from long neglect--got itself into great confusion.
I paid him for his information with a cigarette, which he took very readily, and seemed to think smoking a pleasant relief after his disentangling labours.
Still I needed repose and solitude, so I determined to go to Flityville and arrange my ideas, no longer alarmed at the confusion in which they were, but with the steadfast purpose of disentangling them quietly, as I would an interesting knot.
He was under the cart as he spoke, disentangling the wheels very handily, for the smash had been so complete that they were knotted and twisted in an extraordinary manner.
Miss Arbuthnot was engaged in disentangling a bramble which had caught in her dress.
We pretend to no peculiar power of disentangling contradiction or denuding forgery, we have no settled correspondence with the antipodes, nor maintain any spies in the cabinets of princes.
Miss Keating picked up the ball and brought it to the old lady, winding and disentangling it as she went.
Life is a tangle, a tangle which every socialist must feel to be disentangling itself; but it is also a riddle, and on that point socialism has nothing to say at all.
His main experience has been the experience of disentangling himself, and therefore life, reflected from within himself, is to him a thing also which disentangles itself and grows ever more free, simple, and lucid.
Thus too the Samurai of A Modern Utopia are figured as having arisen at first informally as the constructive minds disentangling themselves from the social chaos.
And the kind I could love was disentanglinghimself from the group around the door and coming toward me at that very moment.
There was no discoverable drapery; the dark head, with its crisp, curly, jetty hair, seemed just disentangling itself from out of curtains and clouds.
Being powerless to deal with them himself, he had sent down his own solicitor to assist in disentangling them.
Lucia stood still, being indeed unable to move, and watched his long, slender fingers adroitly disentangling her.
Damn you, you mad Irishman," said Snorky picking himself up anddisentangling himself from the newspaper.
Skippy, disentangling himself from the bench, rose with slow deliberation.
He lectured a little in conversation then; he lectures more now and listens less, toilsomely disentangling what you already understand, giving you in detail the data you know; these are things like callosities that come from a man's work.
I remember once during the Oxford days an intimation that should have set me thinking, and I suppose discreetly disentangling myself.
Up-hill work still,' answered Guy, disentangling some cinders from the silky curls of Bustle's ear.
Her muslin caught on the bolt, she turned, Guy was already disentangling it, and she met his eye.
From the next day the quails always acted in the same manner: and he used to be disentangling his net till sundown, catching nothing, and going home empty-handed.
And whilst the fowler was disentangling his net from the bush, darkness had come on.
On disentangling these, pools of blood became visible; and the next ominous sign was, that the hood of the cradle had been smashed to pieces.
The lesser, but not negligible, reason is that we possess no convenient English word for the unknotting or disentangling of a complication.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disentangling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
