How to Use disentangle in a Sentence

disentangle

verb

• The struggles cannot be disentangled and written off as foreign or complicated.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
• In other words, betting markets can’t be disentangled from a reality in which a segment of the country does not believe the election results.
  — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
• But many of the tools for disentangling them from the rest of the data don’t yet exist.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2013
• Those two things are hard to disentangle, though, in thinking about the future of the court.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• But the fastest computers of the time weren’t fast enough to disentangle them.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• Efforts are underway to plan how the bridge will be disentangled from the Dali so the ship can be moved.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• The authors disentangle a fruit bat from a net during the Belize Bat-a-thon.
  — Wei Gordon, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• By the same token, the costs of failing to disentangle would also be far greater.
  — Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024
• Aerial footage shows Django diving into the sea from a small boat and disentangling the whale from the shark net.
  — Fox News, 19 May 2020
• Still, the show refused to disentangle the Conners’ loving bark from the working world’s bite.
  — Angela Allan, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
• Experts are working to disentangle the snarl now for fear that things could get worse if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 May 2022
• The goal of such policies is not to disentangle the United States from the global marketplace.
  — Martin Vantrieste, STAT, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the study so far, CBT seems to be disentangling the salience and default mode networks in some people with fibromyalgia.
  — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020
• Yeganeh agrees that the role of the programmer can never be fully disentangled from the product.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
• No pain, no gain Mr Chahed must also do more to disentangle the state from the economy.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• After pinning the shark onto the sand to keep it still, a fellow fisherman used plyers to cut the line from the shark's mouth and disentangled the wire from its body.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• After pinning the shark onto the sand to keep it still, a fellow fisherman used plyers to cut the line from the shark's mouth and disentangled the wire from its body.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• The ground wire will either be affixed via a green screw or wrapped around the bracket holding the light; use a screwdriver or your hands to disentangle it.
  — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• The crisis can't be disentangled from race, experts say Now, residents are having to figure out what to do with the trash on their own.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Last year, a whale rescuer in Nova Scotia was killed when he was struck by the tail of a right whale, moments after disentangling it, the spokesperson said.
  — Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• Parker is set to become the 10th left fielder in 10 seasons to start for the Giants on opening day since the club disentangled itself from Bonds.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2017
• Science fiction can be hard to disentangle from the real world.
  — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
• Who would have the time or energy to try to disentangle its origins, and then to combat my identities?
  — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• One way to begin to disentangle whether the brain differences predate the disease is to study people very early in its course.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2020
• The islands of the mind and those encircled by water can be difficult to disentangle.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• The fire department’s report shed light on the effort to disentangle and extricate the victim from beneath the train.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 8 Jan. 2022
• The legislation is a key plank in the government’s plans to disentangle Britain from the EU after more than four decades of membership.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• In this case, a team led by the University of Exeter’s Russell Blackport tried to disentangle the chain of events with a clever analysis.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2019
• The fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry cannot be disentangled in this way from the equal right to the benefits and privileges that come with it.
  — Dale Carpenter, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• Even if a major ISS partner does decide to withdraw from the project, the transition may take months or even years to fully disentangle.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024