A dark man with a shaven, blue neck and long mustache, tangling in his fetters, sprang toward her and embraced her.
When the last car with the lanterns flew by her she was already beyond the water-tank, unsheltered from the wind which lashed her, blowing the shawl from her head and tangling her feet in her skirt.
It must be entirely because Christopher has not written that our young people and mamma are tangling themselves daily in webs which are untangled the next day.
Where's he that will unravel This tangle, ever tangling more and more It must be cut asunder.
The people know their own true interests better: Their simple natures are not warped by show, But round your head a tangling net is wound.
Now mother, turn your head, and let me comb and brush and braid all this glossy black satin, to keep it from tangling while I am away.
Did fell fate hover, even then, in that sparkling perfumed air, and in sinister prescience trace this tangling web of threads, with grim intent to snare her unwary feet?
Then one would roam forth for his favourite flower, And twine a fair wreath for his delicate brow; Or weave round him sleeping a fairy-like bower, By drooping and tangling the hazel's green bough.
By using very coarse screens, even soft, wet, stringy materials can be slowly fed through the grinding chamber without hopelessly tangling up in the hammers.
For example, tangling easily can occur while rapidly feeding in thin brittle flakes of dry spoiled hay and then failing to slow down while a soft, wet flake is gradually reduced.
An instrument consisting of a woodmen bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.
Like a veil it spread among the trees tangling among their sharp branches, its lacy mesh tearing, to leave dark jagged holes.
Indeed she did; and now that you are running your head into a very pretty silken skein, and tangling yourself up in the most tremendous manner, I think it is time for me to act.
This makes five days that you have been here, tangling yourself more and more in the net.
Thought released turns to its home As bees through tangling thickets come.
It's awful on a woman to feel herself growing up stiff and sturdy by a man's side and then to get sight of a gourd-vine tangling itself up between them.
Finally, with the tears tangling icily in my lashes, I got up and went into the house and lighted the fat pine under the logs in the hall.
Tie the long, loose end of the thread on a small empty spool, that it may be wound up and kept from tangling when not in use.
When the circus is over roll the threads on their respective pieces of cardboard and bits of tape to avoid tangling them, and have a box ready in which the animals may lie flat until again needed.
As to the contiguous territories to the United States, wisdom would direct no tangling alliance.
The flower beds were choaked with the low running bramble and tangling five-finger; tall, rank rushes, mullens and daisies, had usurped the empire of the kitchen garden.
A few medinical and odoriferous herbs were scattered here and there, and a few solitary flowers overtopped the tangling briars below; but there was plenty of fruit on the shrubbery and trees.
Light-lidded sleep and holy dreams to her, Unborn of feverish sorrow or of care, Soft as the gust that makes the arras stir, Tangling gold moonbeams in her fragrant hair.
Sometimes, towards sunset, a great shield stretched dark from the west to the zenith, tangling the light along its edges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tangling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
