Sentence examples for be a dense tangle from inspiring English sources

Terrain that appeared from a distance, or even from a slight angle, to be a dense tangle of unbroken rain forest looked from directly overhead like moth-eaten fabric, where small and medium-sized clearings opened up to reveal a field of charred tree stumps, interspersed with crops or, at least as often, simply abandoned.

In Einstein's general relativity, these objects are bottomless pits in space-time, voraciously swallowing everything, even light, that gets too close, but in string theory they are a dense tangle of strings and membranes.

There, the vegetation near the ground is a dense tangle of nettles, creepers, and competing species of fast-growing, short-lived trees, which make walking difficult if not impossible.

It was still a dense tangle of dark fibre with the occasional streak of red.

And then came a time in his life, coinciding with a long convalescence after pneumonia, when those little phobias of his, which his parents had stubbornly regarded as the eccentricities of a prodigiously gifted child, hardened, as it were, into a dense tangle of logically interacting illusions, making them totally inaccessible to normal minds.

The viruses can be used to create a dense tangle of metal nanowires, and the potential applications for these engineered materials are remarkably diverse.

Apart from the path that the loggers had hacked out, it was an impenetrable tangle of dense scrub.

The best soils are deep mucks found in a narrow zone along the lakeshore, where a dense tangle of custard apple, or pond apple, once grew.

Only a few months ago, Iraq was in the grip not only of a fierce anti-American insurgency but also of a dense tangle of sectarian wars, which America seemed powerless to stop.

From its very tip trails down an anticlimax – a weak strip of multi-coloured plastic tape, which then pools on the floor in a dense tangle of spaghetti.

A map of the country's lines resembles a dense tangle of blood vessels, clotted around London, the West Midlands and the urban north-west.