NOUN
- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
How To Use roundabout way In A Sentence
- All of which is a roundabout way of saying that I'm a pillock and, in my haste and desire to just write down stuff that I knew, totally forgot about the restrictions on which questions I could answer.
- In a roundabout way Hernández teaches upper-middle-class kids a lesson that refined mothers used to inculcate from the cradle onward: If you've got it, don't flaunt it. Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
- This is only a roundabout way of saying that the score for the film sounded like elevator muzak.
- Sara made for it in a roundabout way to give them a little time to prepare for her, trying to seem as non-threatening as possible.
- But it was also, in a roundabout way, his athletic gift. Times, Sunday Times
- That's what I've been trying to get to in my roundabout way.
- We are going a roundabout way to the village via a quiet length of top road and track and then an abandoned rail line of cinder trackbed ablaze with fireweed.
- We took a roundabout way from Chicago to San Francisco by driving through Texas.
- But it was also, in a roundabout way, his athletic gift. Times, Sunday Times
- He actually came up with the name in a roundabout way. The Sun
