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  • verb Present participle of entwine.
  • noun The action or situation of something that entwines.

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Examples

  • Burns and Hawthorne, I would argue, are less concerned with the literal truth of such legends than they are with their "emotional resonance," and the role such resonance plays in entwining the political with personal, for good or ill.

    National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006

  • Her name entwining in mine, while my eyes most eagerly follow

    Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

  • Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald's novel The Voice takes its audience on a quest for the real Holy Grail, entwining scientific mythology with geopolitical intrigue in an esoteric thrill-ride Dan Brown couldn't dream up, as a frustrated journalist unravels a 5,000-year-old mystery involving Templar knights, Celtic priests and Sufi mystics.

    Michael Hughes: Book Review: The Voice by Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald Michael Hughes 2011

  • The structure of The Bird House, with its twin diaries forty years apart, entwining and untangling, proved challenging.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • In fact, Polkinghorne's entire life could be described as something of a double helix, with religion and science entwining, constantly make contact and often providing mutual support.

    Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Top Peacemaker In The Science-Religion Wars Ph.D Karl Giberson 2012

  • Shifting and entwining viewpoints while confounding and thrilling readers with frequently bizarre layouts and typeface changes and orientations, House of Leaves is undeniably an unforgettable reading experience.

    100 Greatest Books #80-76 | Fandomania 2010

  • Smiley has a gift for entwining eroticism with humanism and sparkling wit to form deliciously complex and slyly satirical fiction.

    Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley: Book summary 2010

  • Brystion had spun a web of desire about us, entwining strands of lust and the delicate beginnings of some deeper, unnamed emotion into a pulsing nebula of light and shadow.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Is there an entwining of the lives of Henry Stuart and Leo Tolstoy and Sonny Brewer?

    Sonny Brewer - An interview with author 2010

  • The base is one of the most detailed of the series, including not only the aforementioned water, but also a few entwining octopus bits.

    Collectible Review: Women of DC Mera Bust | Fandomania 2009

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