How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

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• The few highlights are undone by a convoluted mythology, plenty of clichés and a lack of scares.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• Yet the nature of Sunrise’s power is more convoluted than that.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2021
• In a lot of cases, that convoluted process resulted in months-long delays before claims were processed.
  — Liz Farmer, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Americans on both the left and the right are tired of our nation’s hopelessly convoluted alcohol laws.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 July 2021
• The accusations against the prime minister is only the latest twist in a convoluted murder plot that most Haitians despair will ever be solved.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2021
• It’s compounded by Utah’s convoluted redistricting process, which funnels through two groups before review by lawmakers.
  — Shane Burke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
• And the convoluted process means that the terms budget, ...
  — Ron Estes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• 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
• How does any of this fit into the convoluted timeline of the last 19 Zelda games?
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• The three leads are the anchors in a very convoluted, very sweaty love triangle, which spans decades.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 May 2024
• None of Scorsese’s Mafia movies were as convoluted as this.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the process turned out to be more convoluted than expected.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
• The saga of Moss’s involvement in Depp and Heard’s ever tawdry trial is a bit convoluted.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 25 May 2022
• This has to be the most convoluted and cockamamie apology on the books for Stalin’s mass murder.
  — Algis Valiunas, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• The more convoluted the machinations, the better the payoff.
  — Vulture, 24 July 2023
• PBMs have for years operated in the shadows of the convoluted US.
  — Ted Okon, STAT, 8 July 2022
• Keep that core reason in mind, and don’t take them down a convoluted, black hole of information.
  — Josh Perlstein, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• The last thing a TV show as convoluted and morally perplexing as this one needs is a Me Too narrative.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
• Angie said through convoluted gasps brought on by racing Adderall thoughts that Saint died at his desk so Jean could get his job.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Sailing is the act of going nowhere fast in the most convoluted fashion imaginable.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 28 Aug. 2022
• This is the mechanism that the Texas law tried to circumvent, in its convoluted manner.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• Much of this outcome has to do with the convoluted structure of redistricting in Utah.
  — Shane Burke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
• While the royal family has been fraught with tension since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back from their positions as senior royals in 2020, the lack of birthday posts seems to be yet another convoluted royal custom.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2024
• The result is at once convoluted and simplistic, half-heartedly using horror tropes as a means of working toward a rather confused notion of forgiveness.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024