His feet slipped among the tangled roots and earth bruised his hands.

The fighter had crawled behind a fallen tree's tangled roots and was looking for signs of her there.

The tangled roots of the tobacco negotiations stretch back more than two years.

Behind them the wreckage of the sphere lay amongst tangled roots and branches.

Their twisted, tangled roots collect dirt, which often become islands.

But solitude appeared, truly, to be bound into the tangled roots of what he was.

The tangled roots constantly tried to trap him as he made his way through the thicket.

Its foliage was on the ground, and its tangled roots were in the air.

He was already moving toward the nest of tangled roots.

American music's tangled roots were the province of two disparate groups, the traditional cultures and the scholars who studied them.