circuitous

Example Sentences

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"Flights already doing circuitous routing have even less choice."

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

In that case, exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood say they can’t trace back the cost basis because of the holding’s circuitous route.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

People travelling between Al-Eizariya and Jerusalem would have to take a circuitous route three times longer than the present journey, he said.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

“The Best Years of Our Lives” centers on three G.I.s who meet on their circuitous way home to Boone City, the fictional Midwest metropolis that’s the movie’s setting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

He ran in an agonizingly circuitous pattern, weaving and stumbling, falling once, but immediately on his feet again, running slowly, unable to escape anything.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy