How To Use Roundabout way In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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This is only a roundabout way of saying that the score for the film sounded like elevator muzak.
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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.
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But it was also, in a roundabout way, his athletic gift.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's what I've been trying to get to in my roundabout way.
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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.
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We took a roundabout way from Chicago to San Francisco by driving through Texas.
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But it was also, in a roundabout way, his athletic gift.
Times, Sunday Times
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He actually came up with the name in a roundabout way.
The Sun
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We are going a roundabout way to the village via an abandoned rail line with a cinder trackbed.
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The first full set had been by another tenor-bass-drums trio, starring saxist Sabir Mateen, who played in a much more meandering, roundabout way —he seemed to be coming at you from the sides, as distinct from Mr. Malaby's full frontal attack.
A Last Weekend of Virtuosos and Visionaries
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She decided not to take the route through the village but to walk the roundabout way along the forest's edge in order to not having to see the horror any more.
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Anyway, this is just a roundabout way of saying that, while I'm personally delighted to be here, I also appreciate the larger gesture that the invitation represents.
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Where are the two of you taking me in some sort of roundabout way?
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That famous voice is never more honeyed than when it's saying - in a courteous, roundabout way - ‘No.’
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In a roundabout way, I did answer his question with a ‘no.’
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However, privileged access to positive externalities is merely a roundabout way of saying that opportunities are unequal.
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I leave in the direction of the toilets but instead start making the roundabout way to Jeremy's room.
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He asked me, in a roundabout way, if he could have a salary increase.
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This is his extremely roundabout way of saying that he wasn't waiting for some kind of rock revival to make his comeback; if anything, he's reacting against it.
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hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend
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He actually came up with the name in a roundabout way.
The Sun
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It slowly dawned on me that this was what he was trying to determine, in his roundabout way: whether I liked the boy-leader or not.
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In a roundabout way we come back to the problem I had with it.
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They'd never actually done any of the sorts of things suggested in the letter, although she had brought the subject up, in a roundabout way.
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There was no need for the data to be obtained in such a roundabout way when there was a well-established legal remedy already available. grumbler on Sep 29th, 2009 at 3: 11 pm:
Who is pulling the strings? | Serendipity
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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
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This essay will suggests in roundabout ways, that this could be as difficult for ‘them’ as for ‘us’.
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Austen is pervading my life in roundabout ways, and while it’s nice to watch a movie without the work part of my brain peering at the cars to see what sort of dash kits might be installed, I feel like I’d be much better served by reading her actual work.
Becoming Jane with Anne Hathaway
