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Example sentences for "intricacies"

Lexicographically close words:
intrenchments; intrepid; intrepidity; intrepidly; intrest; intricacy; intricate; intricately; intrigue; intrigued
  1. Jane realized this was a weak simile, but it was not easy to give Helen a clear understanding always, and the intricacies of this conversation taxed even Jane's ready flow of speech.

  2. I thought it worth while to investigate the intricacies of the infant mind.

  3. Few women know anything of the intricacies of a man's life and emotion, save such as are connected with love.

  4. To reconcile these intricacies to an appearance of reason requires three-score years' experience in metaphysics.

  5. Nevertheless, it is into these incidental intricacies and uncertainties, that Henry George's now famous theory of landed rents and the taxation of them, strikes its roots.

  6. To the latter this tortuous channel, which is above ten miles farther round than the middle channel, presents no impediment, besides the intricacies of the bar, but increased distance.

  7. Two months later, Theodora was reading the Anabasis, while Hubert was still toiling over the intricacies of the irregular verb.

  8. No one of them but Hubert had ever mastered the intricacies of a wheel, and, in consequence, they were loud in their advice.

  9. There were the facts as Anna made them out: that, at least, was their external aspect, was as much of them as she had been suffered to see; and into the secret intricacies they might cover she dared not yet project her thoughts.

  10. They meant, she supposed, that when she had explored the intricacies and darknesses of her own heart her judgment of others would be less absolute.

  11. Through all the intricacies of her suffering she felt the separate pang of his.

  12. She had lacked the hard teachings of experience, and an instinctive disdain for whatever was less clear and open than her own conscience had kept her from learning anything of the intricacies and contradictions of other hearts.

  13. As he sat moodily staring at the carpet its silly intricacies melted into a blur from which the eyes of Mrs. Leath again looked out at him.

  14. We have not an interpreter at hand, and so cannot wrestle with the intricacies of the authoress's name, which appears to be some Galwegian form of Erse or Choctaw.

  15. He had once got hold of a stray volume of Adam Smith, and muddled his brains for a whole week over the intricacies of the "Wealth of Nations.

  16. It stands almost at the central point of the labyrinthine intricacies of the modern city, and often presents itself before the bewildered stranger when he is in search of other objects.

  17. Taking her way through some of the intricacies of the city, Miriam entered what might be called either a widening of a street or a small piazza.

  18. For Thucydides, in addition to his just influence as a great writer, has enlisted in his favour all those to whom Greek grammar with its intricacies is the most divine of all pursuits.

  19. The intricacies of method surprised and repelled him; the insincerity met on all sides he designated despairingly as the "San Jose scale" of humanity.

  20. Here it is lost in the intricacies of the "back country.

  21. This was our first introduction to the intricacies of the "Manual of Ceremonial.

  22. In retired corners little groups of men may be seen examining the intricacies of a Lewis gun or a field telephone.

  23. Flag wagging had by now been more than mastered; and the intricacies of the "D III" telephone were now being absorbed, and a limited amount of practical work done with this instrument.

  24. Unseen by most in that pack of men on the steps the Prince was heard to say that he had come to the conclusion that to master the intricacies of the Exchange was a science rather beyond his grasp just then.

  25. When the Prince entered the room the gong sounded to close the market, and amid a hearty volume of cheering he was introduced to the pit, and some of its intricacies were explained to him.

  26. The little boys, who had taken Yankee out of the rope harness the evening before, remembered its intricacies and had no difficulty in getting him back into that complicated gear.


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