the long way

He said he was planning a trip towing a trailer which might have to see him go the "long way around" adding significant time and costs.

"I think they offered me a train home. And I drove back the long way from Glasgow after we wrapped!"

The magnetic fields initially applied by the tokamak wind around the torus-shaped plasma, both the long way -- around the outer edge, and the short way -- from the outer edge and through the center hole.

Cat took the long way to the food aisles.

I told him to be safe on the long way back to Camp Pendleton and I waved goodbye.