Sentence examples for tangle of water from inspiring English sources

Or maybe they've come to some kind of rest by an uninhabited island, caught in a tangle of water plants.

The manhole, about two feet wide, is one of thousands that dot the streets of the city, offering entrance to the subterranean tangle of water mains, steam pipes, electrical wires and subway tunnels.

In the early morning light, my kayaking guide Praveen bobs patiently on the Periyar river, while I cackhandedly negotiate my way out of a tangle of water hyacinth - the weed that is currently the bane of Kerala's backwaters and rivers.

The state is a tangle of water conveyance channels and pipes, with farmers, politicians, and environmentalists fighting the same water war William Mulholland fought almost a hundred years ago.

Byzantine tangles of water pipes and gas lines and electrical cords that would have mystified a contractor somehow managed to pump the atrium with warm air and fresh water, insulating it from the Detroit winter.

Elsewhere, a proposal in the exhibition by Jean Nouvel and Mia Hagg to remake a blighted tangle of highways spanning the water in the Slussen area of Stockholm envisions a diverse and lively series of pedestrian-friendly public spaces.

The district is considering buying a small drone that can use infrared technology to see hidden pools of water amid tangles of mangroves and sea grass on hard-to-access islands.

A tangle of stir-fried "aquatic vegetables" (water spinach and watercress, with water chestnuts), meanwhile, offers a welcome purity of flavor, while a collection of grilled eggplant varieties dances under a dressing redolent of fish sauce and mint, studded with pearls of toasted rice cereal.

Battling intense heat and smoke with streams of water from a tangle of fire engines on 86th Street, a commercial thoroughfare, firefighters finally got into the building at 3 30 a.m., an hour after their arrival.

If your hair is hard to brush out, put a bit of water, hairspray, or tangle-remover.

Fishing line can get tangled around the legs and wings of water birds such as gulls and loons, making them unable to fly or even walk.