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Example sentences for "labyrinthine"

Lexicographically close words:
laburnum; laburnums; labyrinth; labyrinthian; labyrinthic; labyrinths; lac; lace; laced; lacelike
  1. These, in the published plans, serve to give to the ruin a large share of its labyrinthine character.

  2. The town is a steep, dirty, labyrinthine place, and so rarely visited by strangers that our appearance created quite a sensation.

  3. Poetry, too, became euphuistic and labyrinthine and nevertheless friendly and familiar and full of a luscious humour, like the wit of the people.

  4. Apprehensive of losing him, I rode recklessly after, now breasting the thicket--now tracing its labyrinthine aisles.

  5. Already had I given them a knot to unravel--my devious path forming a labyrinthine maze.

  6. Manifestly not those of an absolute guide through the labyrinthine depths of the Divine counsels.

  7. First, there was a vague rumor among the Indian voyageurs, who were ever gliding back and forward on the labyrinthine waters of that north land like the birds of passage overhead.

  8. If they are rich in thought, they are also luxuriant in labyrinthine sentences that puzzle even the initiated in the Ziph language.

  9. We see no escape from a threatening danger, we perceive no path out of a labyrinthine maze of evil; when, lo!

  10. And wandered I alone, for WHAT did my soul hunger by night and in labyrinthine paths?

  11. The native Pimas reported to the Spaniards in early times the existence of a building far up the Gila, the labyrinthine plan of which they traced on the sand, as shown in the cut.

  12. Dost think that Mary Burton prizes these weary labyrinthine sentences--all hay and wool, like the monstrous swelling of trunk hose?

  13. The story of 'Tristram Shandy' wanders like a man in a labyrinth, and the humour is as labyrinthine as the story.

  14. Some of them attained a length of seven or eight feet, and had plates of bone over their heads and bellies, while the jaws in their enormous heads were loaded with their strong, labyrinthine teeth.

  15. Why should I go on to quote such lines as-- That thousand-memoried unimpulsive sea, or, Curls the labyrinthine sea Duteous to the lunar will.

  16. By many labyrinthine passages, strange galleries of death, they passed together from the dark deeps of the catacombs.

  17. Tunnels of gloom ran labyrinthine on every hand; a musty scent burdened the air, and fine sand covered the floor.

  18. I rode in the dark and rain through the labyrinthine streets of unpeopled London.

  19. At St. Albans they overthrew and filled up all the subterranean crypts of the ancient city as well as certain labyrinthine passages which extended even under the bed of the river.

  20. The name Dorchester suggests a Droia or Troy camp, and I have little doubt that the labyrinthine Maiden was a colossal Troy Town or Drayton.

  21. Who can fathom the wiles of this labyrinthine old man?

  22. Cassandra hit the mark indeed when she said that "it was hard to fathom the wiles of this labyrinthine old man.

  23. The "labyrinthine old man" gave me a look in which I plainly read that he had reached the end of his windings.

  24. He was to find by touch a seaman's chest; handle it in that thickening gloom; carry it, push it, move it through that labyrinthine obscurity to a point from which it could be raised.

  25. Following his guide, to Raynier it seemed they were traversing endless and labyrinthine passages.

  26. The path by which they threaded the labyrinthine passes was in places none too safe, frequently overhanging, as it did, the boulder-strewn bed of a mountain torrent, now nearly dry.

  27. In still another part of the Garden there is a labyrinthine maze, formed of an intricacy of hedge-bordered walks, involving himself in which, a man might wander for hours inextricably within a circuit of only a few yards.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "labyrinthine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; affected; asymmetric; asymmetrical; bedizened; bent; billowy; circuitous; cockeyed; complex; complicated; confounded; confused; crabbed; crazy; crooked; crumpled; crunched; curved; daedal; declamatory; desultory; deviating; devious; digressive; discursive; distorted; elaborate; elevated; errant; erratic; excursive; flamboyant; flaming; flashy; flaunting; flexuous; fulsome; garish; gaudy; grandiloquent; grandiose; implicated; incurved; indirect; intricate; involuted; involved; irregular; knotted; knotty; labyrinthine; lofty; lopsided; lurid; matted; mazy; meandering; meretricious; multifarious; orotund; ostentatious; overdone; overwrought; pedantic; perplexed; perplexing; planetary; pompous; pretentious; rambling; rhetorical; roundabout; roving; sensational; sententious; serpentine; shifting; showy; sigmoid; sinuous; snaky; snarled; sonorous; sophisticated; sprung; stilted; stray; subtle; swerving; tall; tangled; torsional; tortuous; turning; twisted; twisting; twisty; undirected; undulant; unsymmetrical; vagrant; veering; wandering; warped; wavy; whorled; winding; zigzag