How to Use untangle in a Sentence

untangle

verb

• He untangled the garden hose.
• She carefully untangled the child's hair.
• Noah, 7, likes to drive the four-wheeler and, in the skiff, help untangle salmon from the net.
  — Miranda Weiss, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
• While this bought the man enough time to begin untangling the leash, the bear came back and bit the dog.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2018
• The teams had to untangle a braided rope, hook a sled with balls, and then land the balls in a basket.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• East will play low, and then South can’t untangle all his tricks and will fail.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• Gently message the roots of the plant to remove any loose dirt and untangle the roots.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• The two made a plan to put on gloves and throw a couple of garments over them and try to untangle their talons.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2019
• Others simply stared at it and tried to untangle the words.
  — Elissa Miolene, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2022
• These are a few of the many areas where the HELP committee can untangle this knot.
  — Bill Cassidy, STAT, 5 July 2023
• The officer found a push broom and started using it untangle the leash from the shrub.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
• But where most war games are grounded in conflict, few spare the time to untangle the many other facets of war.
  — Jack Yarwood, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• While untangling the impact of the clause may be a bit of a sticky wicket, that’s not the only legal question.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019
• If it can be done safely, untangle the line if it is wrapped around the saw and remove as much of the line as possible.
  — Ed Killer, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• Hill untangled the lines, and by the next morning, Harris and Lofberg were brought safely back to shore.
  — Kayla Epstein, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• But the data’s still very messy, and researchers are scrambling to untangle it.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 27 Aug. 2022
• If people don't seek out help to untangle their emotions, they get stuck in anger or guilt.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 18 July 2021
• For years, his father’s presence was required, to bait the hook or untangle the line or take apart the reel to see what was wrong inside.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 15 June 2019
• None of the SUVs and crossovers on this list need to be charged, so there’s no need to untangle the 50-Amp extension cord to keep them going.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2022
• The government then would have to untangle these snarls.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 23 May 2022
• Click through to untangle this web of suspects, and find out who really killed Bryce and why.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Officials may first have to untangle all the conflicting laws on the books that have been passed since 1973.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 7 July 2018
• The hunt for a killer goes all the way to California as detectives try to untangle a web of lies from one man.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2021
• The leash was too tangled, though — and to untangle it and get the dog away from the bear, the owner kicked the bear, the conservation officer said.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
• At a moment like this, the only thing more fraught than trying to untangle the present is trying to guess what the future might hold.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2022
• He gets sucked up in machinations that put him over his head and spends much of the plot trying to untangle a web of his own weaving.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022
• Watch the video below to see the rescuers untangle a struggling humpback whale.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Another too-slow episode of Lisey’s Story pulls at the themes in this show but can’t quite untangle what Stephen King set up in his book of the same name.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• The ritual of untangling the cables, plugging things in . .
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
• Together, Uncanny Valley’s hosts will untangle and explain the latest and greatest—or strangest—trends from within the tech industry and how they’re poised to shape society at large.
  — Katie Drummond, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024