Sentence examples for tangled sentence from inspiring English sources

We struggled with the grammar of this tangled sentence.

His works are dense forests of allusion through which you hack, sentence by tangled sentence.

At least two problems tangle this sentence.

So, on my second go-round with the Murry kids, I didn't spend forty-five minutanglingling with the sentence about the beasts that "saw, knew, understood, far more completely" than any of the human characters, or wondering what such knowledge would entail.

A long introductory clause, a pileup of punctuation, or a back-and-forth of competing thoughts may signal that a sentence is too tangled.

What follows for the next 150 pages is a volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud.

And if that previous sentence was horribly tangled, my excuse is that it's an attempt to suggest the loops and knots this curious, elusive narrator winds around his reader.

Sentences crumbled, ideas tangled up, and progress came to a halt.

Quite often when he opens his mouth a slur of unrelated words come out, like a dozen different false starts tangled together, from which an actual sentence eventually finds its way out.

Time is easily tangled.

I get so many jumbled thoughts that my mind can feel like a bowl of tangled up spaghetti and I can barely form a sentence.