How to Use labyrinthine in a Sentence

labyrinthine

adjective

• And then there’s the labyrinthine used-book section in back.
  — Emilie Rusch, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• The interior was dark and gloomy and at turns cavernous and labyrinthine.
  — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• The Sandman' is complex to the point of labyrinthine, non-linear to the point of vertiginous.
  — Michael Schaub, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
• The labyrinthine Old Town swirls around the central Plaza de los Naranjos, a square named for the orange trees that outline it.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2019
• Straightforward though this premise may be, Sacred Games is a labyrinthine show.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 July 2018
• Commons staff offered tea, coffee and cookies — and tours of the labyrinthine building — to the new arrivals.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2019
• But Tokyo and its labyrinthine alleys of stores were brand-new territory for her.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2018
• But finding your way into the city’s labyrinthine network of ravines and the steep stream and river valleys can be daunting.
  — Brian Barth, USA TODAY, 1 July 2017
• Tanks rumbled through the labyrinthine streets that line the Aburrá Valley’s lush western mountains.
  — Steven Cohen, The New Republic, 18 June 2018
• Several of the pieces are framed with striped borders reminiscent of the labyrinthine .
  — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Autumn can’t afford lodging in New York, but her hopes that her visit will be brief are dashed by labyrinthine rules.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2020
• The labyrinthine structure dates to 1972, when the discount retailer, then known as S.S. Kresge, left Detroit for the suburbs.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2017
• Wallace doesn’t skimp on the seedy underside, with labyrinthine tales of gangsters and gamblers, crooked cops and greedy ward-heelers.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• Venture into the labyrinthine City Palace, and trace its line of maharajas to the current occupant.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• There is the urge to go spelunking through her books, to descend into the mad caves and walk the corridors and labyrinthine tunnels, in search of meaning (or…treasure?
  — Brittany Allen, Longreads, 9 July 2018
• After the boys went missing, there was alarm they might never be found in the labyrinthine cave complex, amid a frantic search effort that drew cave divers from around the world.
  — George Styllis, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• Descend via scores of outside entry points and find a labyrinthine network of pathways that covers about 20 miles.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2019
• The wealthy family of Parasite, likewise, owns a sauna in its labyrinthine mansion.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
• Boscolo remains the only woman with the coveted license to guide tourists through the city’s labyrinthine canals.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 30 June 2017
• Throughout the day, the Stoneman Douglas students moved through the labyrinthine building, and met for 20 or 30 minutes at a time with lawmakers in their offices.
  — Julie Turkewitz and Alexander Burns, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Return to Kathmandu to explore the shrines, markets, and labyrinthine streets of the old city, then enjoy a farewell dinner before flying home.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• Sitting cross-legged on a table outside a labyrinthine cave, a monk meditated in the glow of a burning lamp and silently called on spirits to stop the rainfall.
  — George Styllis, latimes.com, 1 July 2018
• Listeners know the band for its labyrinthine rhythms, punchy riffs, and lead singer Courtney Swain’s electrifying, elastic wail.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Letts' labyrinthine plot grows unwieldly and some sharp editing could eliminate a subplot or two, still maintaining the power of the piece.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• As in much of James, the story’s power is inescapably linked to its style — a close third-person that curls into itself in labyrinthine introspection.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Officials say the district’s labyrinthine dirt roads have become arteries for an illicit trade in timber that feeds the sawmills of Pacarana.
  — Felipe Fittipaldi, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The trenches grow deep and labyrinthine, and the nonchalance of the soldiers’ descent into the inferno is mesmerizing.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Dec. 2019
• The result of this technique is that Raulff’s text is somehow dreamy but not sentimental; labyrinthine but not frustrating.
  — C. E. Morgan, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Testarossa Winery now occupies the labyrinthine hilltop castle of native stone that once was the Novitiate Winery, built by Jesuits in the 1880s.
  — Allen Pierleoni, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
• The entire debacle is leading to all sorts of questions about the necessity of Iowa’s labyrinthine caucus process — which was already an easy thing to complain about.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020

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