How to Use labyrinth in a Sentence

labyrinth

noun
  • The cockpit was a labyrinth of instruments and controls.
  • Maybe the labyrinth was all bull.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And that’s just the labyrinth’s foyer.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Mazes and labyrinths have been around for thousands of years.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • At night, the labyrinth lights up with shisha bars and music.
    — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Every day is a kind of moral labyrinth for these people.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 June 2026
  • Or, hang on, maybe life is a chrysalis, a labyrinth, or a box of chocolates.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Gone is the labyrinth of alleys that rambled down to the port.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The seven-circuit labyrinth will be open for walks and tours.
    — Courant Community, 12 June 2017
  • Thus began her journey through the health care billing labyrinth.
    — Jed Lipinski, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
  • Then, sound travels into the bony labyrinth of the ear and to the cochlea.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • This is a global movement to gather and walk a labyrinth for peace.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • Those who prefer solitude find their own section in the labyrinth.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Of course, there were gardens and labyrinths to quiet the mind, open the heart and ground the body.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • To eat at home was to navigate a labyrinth of rules and restrictions.
    — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The farm’s shop, walking trails, lavender labyrinth, and fairy garden are open year-round.
    — Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 30 Dec. 2025
  • My case, this time, is lost in the labyrinth of bureaucracy in Ankara.
    — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The result is a Swiss cheese labyrinth of chambers and passages.
    — Jennifer Walker, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Guests are welcome to walk the labyrinth before the healing service.
    — Courant Community, 5 June 2018
  • In Kabul, the concrete blast walls and barbed wire create a labyrinth around the city.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 9 Jan. 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
  • Downtown Indy is a labyrinth of large windows.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Daedalus may have survived the flight — escaping from a labyrinth of his own making, by the way.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • People should allow for about 20 minutes to walk through a labyrinth, the group said.
    — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The giant spreads his arms to gesture at the labyrinth of pages, then throws his head back in cackling laughter.
    — Hazlitt, 13 May 2025

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