circuitous

Example Sentences

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His seamless design emerges only gradually and circuitously.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

“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

Even with dispensation, a look at the map shows Putin may have to take a circuitous route.

From BBC

But it was a long, circuitous road to get there.

From Salon