The intricate root system of mangroves makes these forests attractive to fish and other organisms seeking food and shelter from predators.

Add a few ornaments, lights and a pile of intricately wrapped gifts under the tree and it means that Christmas has arrived!

Mary's skirt was covered in an intricate pattern.

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere."

The statesmen are barely coping with the intricate foreign affairs.

Berber is such an intricate language.

I can see some intricate patterns in the picture.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

A longsword sheathed in an intricately engraved scabbard.

The longsword was sheathed in an intricately engraved scabbard.