How to Use labyrinth in a Sentence

labyrinth

noun
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  • The cockpit was a labyrinth of instruments and controls.
  • The late innings are a labyrinth for the A’s right now.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
  • Gone is the labyrinth of alleys that rambled down to the port.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Then, sound travels into the bony labyrinth of the ear and to the cochlea.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • These four compel us all the way through this labyrinth.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • At night, the labyrinth lights up with shisha bars and music.
    — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2019
  • The whole trip is at once real and crazy — a mad labyrinth.
    — Vulture, 7 June 2022
  • It’s the kind of place with a labyrinth on the main drag, right in front of the laundromat.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2021
  • The evening couldn't end without a mindful stroll through the stone labyrinth.
    — Jacqueline Andriakos, Women's Health, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Joe and Lily were calling out to each other in the labyrinth.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The seven-circuit labyrinth will be open for walks and tours.
    — Courant Community, 12 June 2017
  • Get lost in the labyrinth of small streets, dazzled by the way the light bounces off of the colorful walls.
    — Michelle Stansbury, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Thus began her journey through the health care billing labyrinth.
    — Jed Lipinski, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
  • This is a global movement to gather and walk a labyrinth for peace.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • Guests are welcome to walk the labyrinth before the healing service.
    — Courant Community, 5 June 2018
  • The boat turned right, pressing deeper into the labyrinth.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The dancers express the labyrinth legend with visual vignettes.
    — Dasun Imanuel, Essence, 28 Aug. 2019
  • With just the hum of the engine and her hands at the labyrinth of controls, Shafi is content.
    — Hans Aschim, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2018
  • Those who prefer solitude find their own section in the labyrinth.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Or, hang on, maybe life is a chrysalis, a labyrinth, or a box of chocolates.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The area is a labyrinth of mountains and canyons that rise out of the earth as if to swallow any invading force.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In Kabul, the concrete blast walls and barbed wire create a labyrinth around the city.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Self-doubt is a labyrinth of confusion happy to draw you in.
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • To eat at home was to navigate a labyrinth of rules and restrictions.
    — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Part of the trick of the Dipsea is the labyrinth of turns in the first 1.5 miles.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Hamas leaders have boasted that the labyrinth of tunnels is hundreds of miles long and full of traps.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Investors play a big role in guiding these companies through the labyrinth.
    — Daniel Goldman, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In doing so, the player must prevent the ball from falling into any of the holes that are present on the labyrinth board.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Kendall’s party feels like an inescapable labyrinth of gloom.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Even if the permits are in order, the building codes are a labyrinth of shifting passages.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020

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