INTRICACY in a Sentence

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There he stopped, feeling afraid to turn round, and his eyes fixed themselves on the intricacies of the pattern before him.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTRICACY
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intricacy
 n.  complication; complexity; state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution
Classic Sentence:
1  For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
2  Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  The winding and intricacy of the geographical color-line varies, of course, in different communities.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Pursuing the narrow intricacies of the streets which at that time tended westward near the Middlesex shore of the river, my readiest access to the Temple was close by the river-side, through Whitefriars.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
5  And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all bewildered, either by the darkness of the night, or the intricacies of the way.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  There he stopped, feeling afraid to turn round, and his eyes fixed themselves on the intricacies of the pattern before him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence:
1  Again and again another layer of intricacy is revealed, proving that something as small as a story can be as satisfying and moving as a Russian novel.
2  We witnessed Professor Obama explaining the intricacies of the policy options in sonorous tones.