Definition of "labyrinthine"

As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.

1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, volume 14, number 158, page 670

In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.

1996, Venkataraman Srinivasan, André Dubois, “Non-Human Primates”, in Steen Lindkær Jensen, Hans Gregerson, Mohammad Hosein Shokouh-Amin, Frank G. Moody, editors, Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology‎, page 27/4

Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.

2011, Lincoln Child, Deep Storm, section 29, page 185

Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat.

1996 September 13, Roger Ebert, “American Buffalo movie review (1996)”, in Roger Ebert‎

Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.

2000, Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, page 51

By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus.

2005, Michael W. Riley, Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure, page 103

Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.

2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 12, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […]