adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mangled/tangled/twisted wreckage
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Recovery teams continue to clear the tangled wreckage.
tangled web
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a tangled web of relationships
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
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A mermaid with dark, tangled hair .
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A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl.
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He groaned and ran a hand through his tangled hair .
mass
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Extensive branching leads to numerous contacts with the host, and ultimately covers the host with a tangled mass of vines.
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Leonora lay gasping, arms outflung, eyes closed, her hair a tangled mass of damp curls against the pillow.
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Compared with the tangled mass of filaments that form the mycelium of most growing fungi, the Laboulbeniales appear decidedly non-fungal.
web
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The whole tangled web of each other's relationships was getting to breaking-point.
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Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow?
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Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged.
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The tangled web of their past and present balled against the rage of Ruth's emotions.
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Almost inevitably the issue had become caught up in a tangled web of local education politics.
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Six more joined it, slowly screwing out of nothing, until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils.
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With so many weapons to hand, some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives.
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The Conservatives also promised to: reform the tangled web of income-related benefits which had grown up piecemeal over forty years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He ran a hand through his tangled hair.
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The concrete highway was edged with tangled dry grass.
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the country's tangled politics
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades.
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In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses.
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The high savanna lowered into a lower, drier savanna, dark with thorny, tangled thickets.
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The series involves the tangled relationships of two families in the London suburb of Blackheath.
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The sheets lay tangled , hanging down on the threadbare carpet.