On either side of the waterless riverbed they followed, gray grass lay in tangled balls, the mounds piling atop one another like dirty cotton.

The tangled ball of hurtling fruit and cutlery leapt into the air.

The huge tangled ball of roots loomed over their heads.

Driftwood, tangled balls of dead weeds and grass, and silt were mounded at the end of the wash.

Replies: Mike, Imagine the molecules in rubber to be a tangled ball of many different threads.

She could not think, could barely breathe, as desire built in her until it was a great, pulsing, tangled ball.

Henry Darger (1892-1973) spent much of his life in Chicago rummaging through trash cans, going to Mass, writing about the weather and fighting with tangled balls of twine.

The "tangled ball of thread" that you use to characterize democracy in Russia is no more or less complicated than the developmental challenges facing any democracy.

A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home.

It wasn't a nice, orderly warp tree, with lines connecting neatly one to the next, but a convoluted wad of light as orderly as a tangled ball of wool.