How to Use intricacy in a Sentence

intricacy

noun
  • I had trouble following all the intricacies in the plot.
  • She admired the composition for its beauty and intricacy.
  • The two chopped it up about pro wrestling and the intricacies of the sport.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • No longer are the stakes confined to the intricacies of your news feed.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • It’s done with such intricacy and care.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Steve was picking these kinds of intricacies off at game speed.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • But there’s much more to the intricacies of this opening night matchup.
    — Nick Crain, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • And then there’s a lot of intricacies within there.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • To lay out every intricacy of the match would require its own book.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The man tells the boy the intricacies of the practices of tai chi and Qigong.
    — cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The intricacy of the process, from the soil to the farmers, to the grapes to the weather.
    — Adam Morganstern, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Like, the cadence is more about the intricacy of the writing.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • In their judgement, the judges drilled down into the intricacies of the law against the use of face masks (pdf).
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2019
  • For years my mother tried to explain the intricacies of roti making to me.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Each work can take from four to eight hours of carving, depending on the intricacy of the work.
    — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Indeed, the brilliance of a stone or the intricacy of the setting is no longer enough to make a sale.
    — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Maybe the plot intricacies can more or less be pieced together, but to what purpose?
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Her ukulele playing and her phrasing, the intricacy and the detail are spot on.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The level of intricacy that takes center stage in this look is admirable.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 16 May 2025
  • Ensure your provider can train your team on the intricacies of the software (and early on).
    — Alison Bringé, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In contrast to the intricacy of the movement, the watch’s face is rather simple.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 May 2022
  • The intricacies of the sport — how to run, jump and train properly — were all foreign.
    — Rahim Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • But none of them has to show the messy intricacies of what today is actually like.
    — Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The level of intricacy afoot here just a few weeks away from the first barrel rolling off the line is staggering.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • This name belies the intricacy of each species’ arrangement of parts.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The series doesn’t cheap on the intricacies of adult friendships either.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell.
    — Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Houser went out to teach eight kids on the intricacies of ice cream making, and could feel the passion pulsing through his veins.
    — Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Before the game, Okey met with Ohtani to learn his pitch shapes and other intricacies.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • That brings us back to Grande, who clearly understands the intricacies of her voice.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024

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