How to Use circuitous in a Sentence

circuitous

adjective

• Their logic seems a bit circuitous.
• But her past is a circuitous route of secrets, lies, pain.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2017
• The station is on the airport's east side, and the tracks take a circuitous route to get there.
  — Tim Zorn, Post-Tribune, 12 May 2017
• Of the two, Riley took a more circuitous route to being drafted.
  — Paul Johnson, Aurora Beacon-News, 14 June 2017
• All of the sudden, Mile High became the world’s most circuitous sports bar.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 8 June 2017
• Bonifacio froze, taking a circuitous route back to the baseball and playing it awkwardly off the hop.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 1 July 2017
• In Wright houses, you're always lured inside through circuitous routes of entry that twist and turn with surprise views along the way.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• El Akkad arrived at his story by a circuitous route that gives him a bracing perspective on America.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• Yet Bonifacio’s defense in right field is a work in progress, prone to circuitous routes and curtailed by undeveloped instincts.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 10 June 2017
• And while traveling from an afternoon spent on the links, his driver had to choose a circuitous route between the course and Mar-a-Lago in order to do the same.
  — Robert Silverman, Esquire, 3 July 2017
• Because all five of the bridges spanning the Tigris have been bombed, Iraqi troops will trace a circuitous path to western Mosul, initially approaching it from the city’s south.
  — Falih Hassan, Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2017
• The festival staff and the RFID wristbands made getting in extremely convenient, if the circuitous route between stages did not.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Scared to lead them to the shelter, Waulter took a circuitous route.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• For Payne, it's been a long and circuitous road to get to the house on Clayton Street.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Casey and Miller's idea took a long and circuitous route getting to the big screen.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• Storr has traveled a circuitous path in the last few years.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• As for the circuitous route he’s traveled, Childers is proud of his path.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• And Donald Trump crisscrossed the land on his circuitous route to the White House.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 23 Oct. 2021
• But this time, the riff seemed to come out of nowhere and was even more circuitous than usual.
  — Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Slate took a circuitous path to both love and comedic stardom.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
• The road here for ATC, amid its 29th season, has been ... circuitous.
  — Page Leggett, charlotteobserver, 10 Jan. 2018
• But the bar is high, judging by the circuitous, two-year journey of this bill.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• It's been a circuitous journey to the NFL for Robinson.
  — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• Perhaps, but the routes through the world to that state of being are circuitous and varied.
  — Veronique Greenwood, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• Castro traveled a circuitous route in life to end up at the school.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Finding a way to good health has been an even more circuitous route.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
• Putin’s warpath does not lead from point A to point B but is a circuitous route that leads from point A back to point A.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Jan. 2023
• Spunky, who is now nearly 2 years old, came to Kukol through a circuitous route.
  — oregonlive.com, 13 July 2019
• Seat-holders who paid up to $250 each, came by circuitous routes.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Adrian Hill came to malaria vaccines through a circuitous route.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024