tortuousness
Example Sentences
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Besides a general, jerky tortuousness of plot and hint and good red herring, separate scenes are overtrained to a point at which, matched together, they are too stale for the race.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dysentery had already broken out, and the length and tortuousness of their communications were greatly emphasised by the condition of the roads.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
The tortuousness of the route must have made the journey twice as long as it need have been with a little more careful selection.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
From the Sansc. bhuj, Goth. bjugan, Welsh bwäu, Gael. bogh, Eng. bow, &c., in the sense of tortuousness, we may take the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
This is a very admissable explanation, considering the tedium and slowness of their progress in winding through scrubs, and being delayed by crossings, the tortuousness of their route making it difficult to keep the course.
From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Frederick J. Byerley
