How to Use roundabout in a Sentence

roundabout

1 of 2 adjective

• He took a roundabout route to town.
• In a roundabout way, he told me that my help was not wanted.
• In a roundabout way, the Cavs still reached their end goal.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2021
• But the loss turned around the season for Utah in a roundabout way.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• All of which is a roundabout way to say: Give me Green Bay.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2020
• That brings us — in a roundabout way — to tonight's host, Aubrey Plaza.
  — Andy Hoglund updated January 22, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2023
• Hayman, 43, came to tidal power in the roundabout way of a sailor.
  — Greta Rybus, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• Pottinger took a much more roundabout path to the White House than Matthews.
  — Chris Megerian and Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2022
• Ford, who seems to have been born to be in the spotlight, came to fashion in a roundabout way.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2020
• Maybe, in some roundabout way, there was justice in that.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2021
• That’s kind of a roundabout way to answer your question.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2022
• Swan and sonata ended up in the same place, although sonata took a much more roundabout route.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2021
• And, in a roundabout way, wildebeests would profit, too, as part of the greater ecosystem.
  — Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• For Guzman, it’s been a roundabout path to the position.
  — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
• Instead, the route has been changed to reach the Western Wall, in the Jewish Quarter, in a more roundabout way.
  — Ilan Ben Zion and Joseph Krauss, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
• Yamamoto and Pritchard split off from Woodcock and her mom and took a roundabout path back to the school.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• This sounds like a roundabout way of saying costs had to be cut and that means some features had to be axed.
  — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• The next day, Janson would take three roundabout flights to get to Corsica, for a gig that evening.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• John Behlmann came to Shucked, the new Broadway musical, in a roundabout way.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 2023
• That's a roundabout way of saying there's been a sudden loss of volume.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
• But sometimes, the path to Olympic glory can follow a roundabout route.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
• The refugee took a roundabout journey across Europe from Poland to asylum.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• The airline discloses these fees in a roundabout way on its site.
  — Christopher Elliott, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023
• That forces them to sometimes take roundabout routes, like three right turns instead of one left turn.
  — Matt McFarland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
• This play has had a very roundabout journey to Broadway thanks to the pandemic.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• The path makes its roundabout way toward a fountain with a lone London plane tree at the center.
  — Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps Goldberg was, in a roundabout way, trying to make that point too.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 21 June 2019
• This is a roundabout way of saying that not everything need be about Trump.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• For Kaufman and Rubenstein, getting noticed in roundabout ways is kind of a thing.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• But getting those aircraft built would be a roundabout journey, starting with a detour into professional ice hockey.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2023

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roundabout

2 of 2 noun

• The roundabout has been in the works for more than three years.
  — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2021
• Park-and-ride lot near the roundabout at the north end of Tusayan.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2022
• The parts with the most traffic are the Bastille roundabout and the area near Trocadéro.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2022
• Aries March 21-April 19 Getting to the point could be a rather roundabout process now.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Where the ancient palaces of the obas of Benin once stood, traffic now whizzes through a large roundabout.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
• The convoy then turns left before leaving the camp via the roundabout.
  — CNN, 24 May 2022
• The four workarounds, named by Savaget, are the piggyback, the loophole, the roundabout and the next-best.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• The roundabout will help cross traffic merge with the flow of traffic on 33, according to the DOT.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
• Left behind at the roundabout were the granite base and the sixty-foot column.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
• Most of the objections raised so far have been to the lane reductions and roundabouts.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• The small landslide damaged a large pipe near the Rambling Road roundabout.
  — Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The footage shows a calm scene before the reporters came under fire in the outskirts of Jenin refugee camp, near the main Awdeh roundabout.
  — CNN, 24 May 2022
• Another factor in Shodeen’s decision to amend the land plan is the roundabout that’s to be built on Route 20 in the next few years.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2022
• Crews will be working on the new roundabout and should have the project completed by August 28.
  — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
• Many of the roundabouts built in the game would be undrivable if constructed in real life.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
• Olmedo-González said the city intends to let neighbors return the lawn gnomes to the roundabout, now that the statue is finished.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
• The other is approaching the roundabout at State Street near the Carlsbad border.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Three neighbors spoke to the committee Tuesday about the roundabout.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
• Elrod said the city was committed to building the roundabout and said the right-in, right out was temporary.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2022
• The crowd circled four stone lions that guard the roundabout’s central island.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• Westfield is putting in a roundabout at East Street during its State Road 32 widening.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2022
• Connecting this roundabout to Wicker Road to the north is a new section of Bluffdale Drive.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2022
• Gates open at 6, with a red carpet arrival by the team at 6:30, followed by a walk into the stadium from the roundabout on the southeast side to the east gate.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• The plans call for installing a roundabout, as well as straightening a 1.3-mile stretch of Darrell Road itself.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
• Residents said Israeli forces had reached the Ansar roundabout in central Gaza City, a block from its main port.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• This won’t work very well in Europe, where there’s a roundabout every 30 seconds in some areas.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Quinones countered that since all three streets didn’t have an unequal flow of traffic, a roundabout made little sense.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
• This landmark sits in the center of the roundabout of the busy Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.
  — Brande Victorian, Essence, 31 Oct. 2022
• The Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City has become known as an area where aid trucks distribute food, attracting crowds of people desperate for supplies.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• The roundabout, which was projected to cost $4.5 million two years ago, is being built in concert with a large residential and commercial project on the Northwest corner of Allisonville and 96th Street.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024

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