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Meanings of tortuous in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "winding"
Examples for "winding"
1
An agency for winding up problem banks remains to be sorted out.
2
The family recommended Hulley and so the long winding court journey began.
3
It was two in the morning; the crime scene was winding down.
4
And they discovered a second tower up a second, smaller winding stair.
5
Riders approach from the south, faint with distance on the winding road.
1
You control how much water you want by twisting a simple knob.
2
Every evening was occupied in twisting and tying evergreen in the chapel.
3
And those words from Christopher Nolan's latest time-twisting spectacle speak for themselves.
4
Soane was twisting his corkscrew in the wire of the champagne bottle.
5
The twisting saps his energy but the doctors can't find anything wrong.
1
The voluminous amount of information they capture is absolutely vital to investigators.
2
He called Willie's number immediately, bracing himself for Lettie's voluminous alto voice.
3
The less voluminous are enhanced without clear identification of the vascular structures.
4
More recently, it has been used to describe anything of voluminous size.
5
Bulger's defense team said reviewing the voluminous discovery would take more time.
1
Jules: It felt easy to drive fast on twisty roads; really precise.
2
Those twisty, fecund films form bookends to the less digestible Closed Curtain.
3
It exited the oval, plunging south down a twisty gorge and away.
4
I got a sick, twisty feeling in the pit of my stomach.
5
It appears that the road to freer information will be long and twisty.
Usage of tortuous in anglès
1
But North African leaders have to navigate a particularly tortuous sectarian path.
2
Having so many regulators also makes drafting new rules a tortuous process.
3
Previous election deadlines have slipped during a tortuous United Nations-backed peace process.
4
The tortuous course of the river added much to the scenic effect.
5
Two miles, perhaps three, it wound its tortuous way down the mountain.
6
From this her mind took a tortuous and serious linking of ideas.
7
Others hoped the country's tortuous peace process would get back on track.
8
Adding to the drama was the tortuous way the names were released.
9
But she was in haste to get out of her tortuous path.
10
There are also many approaches to Belfast, some more tortuous than others.
11
To listen to the tortuous talker is a supreme test of patience.
12
It was I that lured-thatended by luring-Beatainto the tortuous path-
13
At twelve I climbed the tortuous stairs leading to the Countess's apartments.
14
At the command, each vessel began to pursue a tortuous spiral path.
15
It might be tortuous, detailed, but it would not run and run.
16
The road was a slender, tortuous one, winding through rocks and gorges.
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Tortuous through the time
Tortuous across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common