The threads got tangled.

It confuses me how combs can become so tangled up in my hair.

Don't pull, or you'll tangle the threads.

My head has become a tangle of confusion.

A tangled hierarchy is a hierarchical consciousness system in which a strange loop appears.

My niece Lucia likes to tangle my hair.

We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.

Her hair was tangled.

I have now in my hands," my companion said, confidently, "all the threads which have formed such a tangle. There are, of course details to be filled in, but I am as certain of all the main facts."

Sami was weaving a tangled web.