How to Use entangle in a Sentence

entangle

verb
  • The group now aims to entangle the qubits.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Her past and present are soon entangled.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Each one had been entangled in rope at least once in her lifetime.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
  • Waters free from whalers now brim with ships that strike them, and ropes that entangle them.
    Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Washington hates the crime that entangles more and more kids in the city.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Last year’s dead leaves and branches, still not cleared away, lay on the ground, entangling our feet.
    Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • He gets entangled in his tow-truck chain, dragged down the street, and the friction then sets him on fire.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • But the fight against the entangling seaweed was taking its toll.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • Before long, the three are entangled in a series of polyamorous mishaps.
    Charlie Tyson, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
  • But when a tree entangles with your plumbing, feelings can change.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • That puts them at higher risk of being struck by ships or entangled in fishing gear.
    Gene Johnson, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2019
  • She is draped in a golden blanket and entangled in crawling vines and leaves.
    CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • She is draped in a golden blanket and entangled in crawling vines and leaves.
    Hannah Schoenbaum, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
  • She is draped in a golden blanket and entangled in crawling vines and leaves.
    Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Trump is trying to strike a deal, though that effort has become entangled in the trade war.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Here, each of the cat qubits starts off in the same state and is entangled with its neighboring transmons.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Thousands of whales are struck by ships, entangled in fishing lines, and harmed by ocean noise every year.
    Joe Roman, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In such a machine, these qubits are entangled with one another.
    Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2026
  • So why get entangled in today’s troubles?
    Susan Page, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
  • For me, the entangling strands that make up a coherent short story take skill to construct and skill to read.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • Scientists still don’t know how the two animals died — or why they were found entangled.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Since the qubits are entangled, similar changes appear in the qubits held by other agents.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • That could mean becoming entangled with the wrong person.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
  • But the calves obviously don't know, and get entangled.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Laser pulses are applied to entangle the qubits after ions merge and the 32-ion chain is formed.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Pérez was the second person to die after getting entangled in equipment at the plant in the past two years.
    Laura Strickler, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The aquarium says more than 86% of right whales become entangled at least once in their lives.
    Neal Riley, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • One summer day a year or two ago, one of the kids entangled the wire by a wood rack in a weedwacker, severing it in a flash.
    C.j. Chivers, Popular Mechanics, 24 Dec. 2018
  • America First is not to get entangled.
    NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Modern qubit circuits have more knobs and wires and things, but that’s just how to tune the levels, how to couple or entangle them.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025

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