Deviating from a straight course.
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Examples for "roundabout "
Examples for "roundabout "
1 Which was precisely his point, he supposed, in a long, roundabout way.
2 It seemed a mighty roundabout and dicey way to handle the problem.
3 MPs laughed as Cameron replied: You could say, in a roundabout way.
4 Sir, - The Leopardstown Road roundabout is an accident waiting to happen.
5 In a roundabout way I met the fellow who had the papers.
1 There are no straight roads in the wilderness; all trails are devious .
2 Yet something about her suggested she possessed a deep and devious intelligence.
3 It is time for all decent people to resist his devious tune.
4 It is not a moral decision, neither is it a devious plan.
5 That the sources may have been wrong or playing some devious game.
1 Kelly's remains have made a circuitous journey to their final resting place.
2 It seems a circuitous way; but it may prove a way nevertheless.
3 Which isn't surprising, given the circuitous path it took to our screens.
4 By this circuitous route we always arrive at hope in the end.
5 The light-railway engine pulled the trucks slowly along by winding circuitous routes.
6 This circuitous route equaled at least one and a half football fields.
7 To reach the Sibneft wells, you have to travel a circuitous route.
8 Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.
9 An immensely circuitous march lay before it ere Prussia could be re-entered.
10 So we conducted him to our property by a rather circuitous route.
11 Yesterday, it was his circuitous and confusing dodge about defeating ISIS online.
12 Gonsalvo obviated this difficulty, however, by a circuitous route across the mountains.
13 His arrival there, 10 years ago, came via a circuitous route.
14 Talk about a circuitous route to their most unlikely meeting yet.
15 Few managers have taken such a circuitous route onto European football's greatest stage.
16 The architects were shrewd in making the approach long and circuitous .
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