How to Use untangle in a Sentence

untangle

verb

• He untangled the garden hose.
• She carefully untangled the child's hair.
• Each salmon must be untangled from the net one by one.
  — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Some forms of fraud can take months—or even years—to untangle.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 June 2026
• This isn't a movie to untangle so much as give yourself over to.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
• East will play low, and then South can’t untangle all his tricks and will fail.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
• 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
• An attempt to untangle from the business in his youth failed.
  — Danielle Paquette The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026
• Here are some of the writers who have done the best job of untangling all of the issues at play.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 17 Jan. 2018
• If people don't seek out help to untangle their emotions, they get stuck in anger or guilt.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 18 July 2021
• Gently message the roots of the plant to remove any loose dirt and untangle the roots.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• For those roses, untangle the shrub, but be sure to leave plenty of the older wood.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Thankfully, there are no dancing elves on the lawn and no strings of lights to untangle.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• But the data’s still very messy, and researchers are scrambling to untangle it.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 27 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The problem Piller left behind was now theirs to untangle.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 5 Apr. 2026
• Henry Bushnell did his best to untangle it all.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• With kitchen shears, snip noodles 3 or 4 times to shorten and untangle; set aside.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2016
• The upshot is that the fight might take months or more to untangle, and could lead to litigation.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2017
• The government had to untangle who owned a small tract of land in Rivas’ case.
  — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
• Mike, suddenly alive, comes up with a solution on how to untangle the lines.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
• The acquaintance was kind enough to shelter the dog while Leonard untangled the red tape.
  — Leanne Italie, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
• Click through to untangle this web of suspects, and find out who really killed Bryce and why.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Watch the video below to see the rescuers untangle a struggling humpback whale.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Watch fishermen untangle nets and potter about their wooden caiques as you dine.
  — Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2026
• Mike walked up and down the boat, untangling lines, re-tying lures, and helping anyone who needed it.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• When the two untangled after the sack, Francois stayed on the ground, holding his left knee.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• 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
• With this storage bag, there’ll be no more digging through drawers or untangling ribbons.
  — Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
• 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