tangled

• “She says finding that part of her past uncovered both shame and pride -- what she calls the tangled history of this country.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2008

• “Their imaginative use of the word tangled suggests a nautical genesis, as in Ayers’s “tangled love affairs” and “tangled story” and Obama’s “tangled arguments.””

  Simon & Schuster: Deconstructing Obama

• “All about them the huge-rooted trees blocked their footing, while coiled and knotted climbers, of the girth of a man's arm, were thrown from lofty branch to lofty branch, or hung in tangled masses like so many monstrous snakes.”

  Chapter 25

• “Last week: Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin tangled as they received the checkered flag with Bowyer ending up 12th after spinning to the inside of the track.”

  Team notes: NASCAR stars return to roots at Darlington

• “Maybe he liked his authentic steaks cooked medium-rare and tried not to think of the lost ships and their crews drifting in tangled debris as he injected himself with rest serum at the conclusion of each day.”

  365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “Get you nose out of politics go and preach the word as it is rather than gettingin tangled in these politics.”

  Evangelical plans lawsuit over new Obama outreach effort

• “Sprawling playa bottoms are pocked with feedlots, mountains of hay bales, and farm machinery rusting in tangled shelterbelts.”

  The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting

• “What some called his tangled locution when testifying before Congress was, by his own admission, intentionally obscuring.”

  Tom Alderman: Alan GreenSpeak -- What'd He Say?

• “When the bookworms did not crumble into a fit of giggles (as they usually do when I have caught them ditching dodo*) my brain tangled in confusion.”

  embêter - French Word-A-Day

• “His bread, while glimmer stars of night as set in tangled skein.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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