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1. It is an intricate and soothing hymn.
2. So he went far, seeking dark and intricate places.
3. The watch mechanism is extremely intricate and very difficult to repair.
4. He presently began a long and intricate denunciation of the commander of the forces.
5. In the old days, now dead and gone, life had been so complex, so full of intricate and complicated problems.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTRICATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intricate
 a.  complex; elaborate; having many complexly arranged elements
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Here the snow was so pure that the tiny tracks of wood-animals had left on it intricate lace-like patterns, and the bluish cones caught in its surface stood out like ornaments of bronze.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  In the old days, now dead and gone, life had been so complex, so full of intricate and complicated problems.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  The governor's mansion was brave with jigsaw work on banisters and eaves, but the intricate scrollwork on Scarlett's house put the mansion to shame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  The ramifications of cousins, double cousins, cousins-in-law and kissing cousins were so intricate and involved that no one but a born Georgian could ever unravel them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
5  It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be painted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
7  Those who prefer to, go on with the two-step, but the majority go through an intricate series of motions, resembling more fancy skating than a dance.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  After receiving a fill of discussions concerning marches and attacks, he went to his hut and crawled through an intricate hole that served it as a door.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  So he went far, seeking dark and intricate places.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  He presently began a long and intricate denunciation of the commander of the forces.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  The lean young man in a long overcoat, who was to give a special display of intricate club swinging, stood near watching with interest, his silver-coated clubs peeping out of his deep side-pockets.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  It surprised him however to find that at the end of his course of intricate piety and self-restraint he was so easily at the mercy of childish and unworthy imperfections.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  It is an intricate and soothing hymn.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for anything.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
15  ALL night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Example Sentence:
1  By contrast Peirce's logic is reasonably clear, and he takes great pains to work it out in intricate detail; basically it is the whole logical apparatus of the physical and social sciences.
2  Following the superintendent's guidance, we had to thread some intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment.
3  The watch mechanism is extremely intricate and very difficult to repair.
4  It's not just the stories they tell but the fact that they all belong to unions that weaves Hollywood so intricately into the fabric of American life.