How to Use disentangle in a Sentence

disentangle

verb
  • To fully disentangle them would set both sides — and the whole world — back decades.
    — Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But many of the tools for disentangling them from the rest of the data don’t yet exist.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2013
  • Hogg claimed the vote can't be disentangled from his dispute with the party.
    — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 13 May 2025
  • 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
  • By the same token, the costs of failing to disentangle would also be far greater.
    — Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024
  • Science fiction can be hard to disentangle from the real world.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Yeganeh agrees that the role of the programmer can never be fully disentangled from the product.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
  • 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
  • The authors disentangle a fruit bat from a net during the Belize Bat-a-thon.
    — Wei Gordon, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Still, the show refused to disentangle the Conners’ loving bark from the working world’s bite.
    — Angela Allan, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Although these two fields have disentangled over time, the mystical teachings of the cosmos still guide us today.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
  • The islands of the mind and those encircled by water can be difficult to disentangle.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • No pain, no gain Mr Chahed must also do more to disentangle the state from the economy.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Use a wide-tooth comb instead of a brush to slowly disentangle your hair (wet hair is delicate), starting with the ends and working your way up.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Can Skeets, can any of Skeets’s characters, disentangle eros from self-hatred?
    — Stephanie Burt, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The single-system design would be costly to disentangle — if possible at all.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And the world was silent for so long, unable to disentangle the rightful claim to power with mass extermination and torture.
    — The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Which may help crack down on attacks in the long run, but doesn't help disentangle things for victims who would rather move on as quickly and painlessly as possible.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The goal of such policies is not to disentangle the United States from the global marketplace.
    — Martin Vantrieste, STAT, 5 Oct. 2020
  • 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 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
  • Eight hours after the pilots called for help a Navy support ship arrived and made several attempts to disentangle the sub.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The Murdochs, facing scrutiny on a number of fronts, have sought to disentangle themselves from a web of legal threats.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 15 June 2023
  • 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

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