How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

adjective

• And the convoluted process means that the terms budget, ...
  — Ron Estes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• With this convoluted mess in the AFC, these teams will need to shoot for at least 10 to get in.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2020
• The taxes are high, the highways around me are a convoluted mess, and the winters are a drag.
  — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• The back story on what led to the turnabout is a bit convoluted, but bear with me.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The book, which gets convoluted, isn’t the sole problem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• The bottom of the NFL this year is muddled and convoluted.
  — Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• The half-point Half Moon Bay received at the last minute was sort of shocking and convoluted.
  — Mitch Stephens, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• All of which is a verbose and convoluted way of saying: Where do the Jazz go from here?
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• In all the convoluted back-and-forth, most patients and health plans aren’t charged anything close to list price.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2025
• How does any of this fit into the convoluted timeline of the last 19 Zelda games?
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• These groups fill a gap in a convoluted health-care system, Bergen told me.
  — Tonya Russell, The Atlantic, 21 May 2021
• The three leads are the anchors in a very convoluted, very sweaty love triangle, which spans decades.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 May 2024
• More convoluted versions of the LAMP technique had, in the meantime, been deployed in dozens of places.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
• If things have gotten a little out of sorts or a bit convoluted, now is the time to make sure that everything is on the up and up.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
• In the real world, the process is only a bit less convoluted — albeit with some oddities unique to the league.
  — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• None of Scorsese’s Mafia movies were as convoluted as this.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• That may sound convoluted — kill more moose to help moose survive.
  — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2021
• But the process turned out to be more convoluted than expected.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• All of this said, the release plan is still pretty convoluted.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• If the writers try to find a way to twist the prophecy's meaning and thus shock the audience, the results can be clever or just convoluted.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 1 July 2024
• And in the second act, the twists in the plot become convoluted and its denouement doesn’t entirely make sense to me.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• The convoluted process required to tease a first-rate picture out of an AI is quickly emerging as a fine-art skill.
  — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• But of all the legal cases against Mr. Sarkozy, the Libya one is among the most sprawling, convoluted and explosive.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
• In trying to save itself, the Saw series got caught in a convoluted trap of its own making.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
• But many others have been left out of a process described by some as convoluted and unfair.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2020
• At best, the criteria for waiving the sit-out year is convoluted.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2020
• Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
• This story is so convoluted and there are so many tentacles and the devil is in the detail ...
  — Christina MacFarlane, CNN, 4 June 2020
• What follows is a series of increasingly convoluted schemes that Dreux and Alyssa attempt in order to try and make a month’s worth of rent in one day.
  — James Factora, Them, 17 Jan. 2025
• The six-episode conspiracy thriller starring Robert De Niro is too convoluted to generate real intrigue.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025