inextricably-entangled

Updated: May 13, 2025

At this juncture, it was a noble sight to behold those fine frigates, with dripping breast-hooks, all rearing and nodding in concert, and to look through their tall spars and wilderness of rigging, that seemed like inextricably-entangled, gigantic cobwebs against the sky.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War