How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

adjective
  • And it’s not about losing yourself in a convoluted process, either.
    Lindsey Tramuta, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The fight over ballot deadlines in Minnesota was even more convoluted.
    Richard Pildes, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Deciding where to begin exploring the convoluted trail cluster is the only dilemma.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • There is no evidence linking the convoluted plot to the Justice Department.
    Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This tight two-way setup also begins and ends with a convoluted meander of connecting paths at either side of the bridge, which is a reliable recipe for collisions and crashes.
    Alissa Walker, Curbed, 7 Apr. 2021
  • As a comic book character, Wanda Maximoff has an origin story too convoluted to get into here.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Metroid series has a decades-long, convoluted history with a lot of gaps in between.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • 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
  • The few highlights are undone by a convoluted mythology, plenty of clichés and a lack of scares.
    Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Artificial intelligence can unlock solutions to some of the world’s most convoluted challenges.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Richards and Lawes-Richards are accused by authorities of orchestrating a convoluted retail theft scheme that dates back to at least September.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024

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