He hit the tangled knot like a striking eagle.

The room was beginning to break down into tangled knots of angry, emotionally charged people.

Better to take the time to work on this tangled knot.

But inside it, instead of the normal fibrous growth, there seemed to be a small tangled knot of tissue and bone.

She closed her eyes, shaking with love and pain that mingled into a tangled knot.

Coughing and gasping, they collapsed in a tangled knot.

The tangled knot could indeed be undone by consent, without grudges.

They were crying, and their hair fell into tangled knots.

Then a medical tech had to splice them out of the tangled knot at the back of the neck.

Bodies writhing, they loosed themselves from their tangled knot with slippery speed.