How To Use Circuitous In A Sentence

a long and circuitous journey by train and boat
the explanation was circuitous and puzzling
For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it. Times, Sunday Times
So they have to snake their way up circuitous routes, through canyons and valleys. Christianity Today
I was always amazed by the length and circuitousness of the corridors in the building.

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So they have to snake their way up circuitous routes, through canyons and valleys. Christianity Today
The figures of these dances mapped a circuitous route back to Ireland - not just an imagined return but an embodied recovery.
I came to the knowledge of this site and this specific article by a circuitous route.
Having started out as a ‘proper’ actress, mine was a circuitous route to comedy.
During its circuitous voyage, Cassini-Huygens clocked up almost two and a quarter billion miles as it looped across space to the outer solar system.
She came to the charity through a circuitous route. Times, Sunday Times
While commuters have to take a more circuitous route, it eases traffic congestion and flow.
However, the circuitousness of the walk did afford us a view of the old lock system.
He knew that by this route he would avoid meeting his companions; its difficulties and circuitousness would exercise his feverish limbs and give him time for reflection. On the Frontier
We're taking a rather circuitous route to Waterloo so I can pick them up.
He was still taking this circuitous route to the top of the leaderboard on the 16th with another poor tee shot well to the right. Times, Sunday Times
Through flashbacks, reminiscences and circuitous conversations, the questions echo and re-echo, teasingly existential, never quite igniting. Times, Sunday Times
Potential listeners also are cautious about venturing on to a campus with circuitous roads, dense eucalyptus groves and notoriously problematic parking.
This preliminary question is best approached by a circuitous route.
To avoid being intercepted, she took a circuitous route along a path through the shrubbery. COMPULSION
We had meandered off on a circuitous journey.
It became, by a circuitous route, a bestseller. Times, Sunday Times
To send equipment from one important supply depot to the other involved taking an impossibly circuitous route.
They took a circuitous route to avoid reporters.
To send equipment from one important supply depot to the other involved taking an impossibly circuitous route.
There is a circuitousness about the book that reflects the circuitousness of its topic.
You don't mean that old shandrydan of a caravan that passed along there two or three days ago?" and bargee jerked his thumb in the direction of the hilly tract sloping up from the canal course, through which a narrow road, little better than a sheep track, wound its circuitous way. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
The roads bend and drop, following an older topography, the memory of more circuitous journeys. Times, Sunday Times
Such of us as associate their earliest recollections of the name with the annual cask of wine will read with interest that though the wine, thanks to the oidium or some malady of that sort, is a thing of the past, the spot retains many other charms ample to justify a trip to its shores by a more roundabout way than the slow and direct or costly and circuitous routes laid down by Mr. Benjamin. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
My wanderlust had taken me on a circuitous route but it had led me home.
Typically circuitous is the way she used Bernard.
Russians, or, indeed, upon any of the peoples represented in Paris, of the Secret Council's conspirative deliberations and circuitous procedure, which were in such strong contrast to the "open covenants openly arrived at" to which in their public speeches they paid such high tribute. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
Within each quarter there are selected road closures and some one-way streets, making journeys even more circuitous for non-residents.
My wanderlust had taken me on a circuitous route but, now I was ready to put down some roots and embark on new dreams, it had led me home.
In this 10th anniversary year of 9/11, with renewed danger south of the border, the legend of Pancho Villa is a testament to the mutability — and the circuitousness — of history. Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico
This is a circuitous way of introducing the distinction between adverbs and adjectives. Times, Sunday Times
The word was formed by a rather circuitous route, according to the OED's etymological information.
The roads bend and drop, following an older topography, the memory of more circuitous journeys. Times, Sunday Times
How ingrained in the plenipotentiaries was their proneness for what, for want of a better word, may be termed conspirative and circuitous action may be inferred from the record of their official and unofficial conversations and acts. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
Depending upon the exact location of his lodgings and the circuitousness of his route, Mr. Lorry's walk may have been slightly longer or slightly shorter.
Disability arts is a circuitous route to the inclusion of Disabled people in mainstream arts and wider society.
But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
(which undesignedness is gathered from their latency, their minuteness, their obliquity, the suitableness of the circumstances in which they consist to the places in which those circumstances occur, and the circuitous references by which they are traced out) demonstrates that they have not been produced by meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. Evidence of Christianity
Indeed I have often wondered whether a woman, when she is in pursuit of any given end, can progress by other methods than an ant, which hath no power of circuitousness, and will climb over a tree with long labour and pain rather than skirt it, if it come in her way. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Circuitous though it seemed, removing panes from the abat-jour might actually be a more prudent approach. Nightside The Long Sun
But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
Buses are also a good bet, but take circuitous routes, so might be hard to get your head around when you first arrive. Times, Sunday Times
ANFRACTUOSITY (from Lat. _anfractuosus_, winding), twisting and turning, circuitousness; a word usually employed in the plural to denote winding channels such as occur in the depths of the sea, mountains, or the fissures (_sulci_) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Outside of your screed on liberal politics, however, your rush to colorblindness is somewhat circuitous due to: 1. a history of white supremacy and 2. statements like this student that, at least to me, can be read as an endorsement of group decision-making and a presumption of deficiency by those who make decisions as to the allocation of resources, jobs, justice and wealth. The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
Walkers follow a circuitous route which leads along the gravel pathway through the centre of the historic Curragh racecourse.
Rape at knife-point on a rural side-road outside Athens leads circuitously to a return to England, mental breakdowns, summers working in her father's Scottish hotel, a criminal conviction, a night as a prostitute and a job with the Inland Revenue before "that ad". The Castaway kid
In either event it might prove meat for Sheeta, and so the wary feline stalked by a circuitous route, upon soft, padded feet that gave forth no sound, until the circling aasvogel and his intended prey were upwind. Tarzan the Untamed
The Javelin was beginning her slow, circuitous drop toward the bluewhite sun. And all the Stars a Stage
So we're taking a rather circuitous route to Waterloo so I can pick them up.
It's a long and circuitous journey from start to finish today.
While the track begins as a circuitous path uphill it soon becomes little more than sploshes of red and white paint, marking the way, across slippery mountain rocks.
They have their hands full as confused vehicle users move circuitously in the connecting roads and amid the clutter of material on the main roads.
They also encouraged their talented daughter in the studies that would take her to St Hilda's in Oxford and along an extraordinarily circuitous and unorthodox route from Latin and Greek through physiology to neurochemistry.
Afraid of being followed, I take a circuitous route home.
Potential listeners also are cautious about venturing on to a campus with circuitous roads, dense eucalyptus groves and notoriously problematic parking.
We had meandered off on a circuitous journey of legal ground-breaking to reach the bleeding obvious.
Adding an extra flight or flying a more circuitous route can boost mileage accumulations rapidly.
Discover a side oviduct is gravid in art, do not have burst fortunately, but bilateral tubal circuitous , is added thick, for chronic inflammation expression.
I must apologise for the circuitous route that my thoughts have taken this week.
Tube lines heading east are jam-packed with people taking wildly circuitous routes to work. Times, Sunday Times
Residents and people who have shops and offices on the road have to take a long circuitous route to reach their place.
Yet most successful adults got where they are by circuitous paths. Times, Sunday Times
They took a circuitous route to avoid reporters.
It has been a circuitous route from England to his office at the WRU. Times, Sunday Times
He took the most circuitous route through the building, hiding in the shadows and avoiding security cameras.
Robin Greenlaw and Peter Lindsay took a way that should lead them far aside from this port, and then with circuitousness home. Foes
To reach the Sibneft wells, you have to travel a circuitous route.
This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more spiky as the law terms bristled it, made out with huge satisfaction, and so arrived circuitously at the understanding that the aforesaid, and over and over again aforesaid, Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial; that the jury were swearing in; and that Mr. Attorney-General was making ready to speak. A Tale of Two Cities
Tube lines heading east are jam-packed with people taking wildly circuitous routes to work. Times, Sunday Times
So they have to snake their way up circuitous routes, through canyons and valleys. Christianity Today
He had to abandon all generalities and circuitousness, and come plump upon the royal sinner with his "Thou art the man. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station.
Easy access to the Casteddu is gained by a circuitous avenue cut on the sloping side of the hill and under the escarped heights. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
One has to remember that pedestrians do not have the time or stamina for unnecessarily circuitous routes.
She came to the charity through a circuitous route. Times, Sunday Times
The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station.
But with its circuitous plot and its relentless dig-in-the-ribs jokiness it lacks the compulsion of great storytelling. Times, Sunday Times
What a long and circuitous way it took before it found a home in our Western nurseries! What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
What a long and circuitous way it took before it found a home in our Western nurseries! What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
Many alien plants have become introduced by highly circuitous routes.
My brother dropping it off, after a circuitous route, in a wooded area. Times, Sunday Times
He took us on a circuitous route to the hotel.
My eventual entry into university and the to the margins of academia was much more circuitous.
The way that they narrow and bulge, and the smudges of pale blue pentimenti in the lemon yellow ground, create a circuitous momentum within the work.
Disability arts is a circuitous route to the inclusion of Disabled people in mainstream arts and wider society.
One day I brought up my discomfort with the restrictions and circuitousness of Japanese language.
Yet most successful adults got where they are by circuitous paths. Times, Sunday Times
A walk through Bootham Park offers a circuitous route into York, keeping well away from the noise and fumes of Gillygate.
It seemed ironic that at long last I was here, albeit by a very much more circuitous route than originally planned.
It has been a circuitous route from England to his office at the WRU. Times, Sunday Times
Disability arts is a circuitous route to the inclusion of Disabled people in mainstream arts and wider society.
This is a circuitous way of introducing the distinction between adverbs and adjectives. Times, Sunday Times
He was still taking this circuitous route to the top of the leaderboard on the 16th with another poor tee shot well to the right. Times, Sunday Times
And then he came home and wrote about his circuitous journey.
Tired of hearing and reading too much ‘anfractuous remplissage’ - in other words, circuitous padding?
Buses are also a good bet, but take circuitous routes, so might be hard to get your head around when you first arrive. Times, Sunday Times
It became, by a circuitous route, a bestseller. Times, Sunday Times
The circuitous route and apparent speed of the chase also hint that early reptiles were active predators and possibly cannibals.
My brother dropping it off, after a circuitous route, in a wooded area. Times, Sunday Times
For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it. Times, Sunday Times
Traffic was not allowed and commuters had to take circuitous routes.
Dive guides tend to take you on a rather circuitous route around the coral formations.
Tube lines heading east are jam-packed with people taking wildly circuitous routes to work. Times, Sunday Times
Well, this is Paris, M-G-M – a fantasy world of charm and merriment, and of that fabled "Lubitsch touch," which implied charm, provocative circuitousness and gaiety, combined with a slightly bittersweet awareness that all happiness is transient – but isn't it swell while it lasts! The Awful Truth Gives Michael Moore a New Channel, and Some New Targets
Beijing would be forced to consider whether it makes sense to allow the politically powerful military to control some 80% of China's airspace, leaving only narrow, idiosyncratically shaped corridors for commercial use and thereby requiring planes to follow circuitous, excess-fuel-burning routes to their destinations. All the Hot Air in China
The target is attacked circuitously and the aggressor can therefore remain unidentified.
This is a circuitous way of introducing the distinction between adverbs and adjectives. Times, Sunday Times
This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more spiky as the law terms bristled it, made out with huge satisfaction, and so arrived circuitously at the understanding that the aforesaid, and over and over again aforesaid, Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial; that the jury were swearing in; and that A Tale of Two Cities

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