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Roundabout
"Roundabout" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Don't say it in a roundabout way.
The purpose of a roundabout is to slow down traffic.
After hours of browsing TV Tropes, Lyle could predict the ending of any show. This gave him a distaste for entertainment that, in a roundabout way, enabled him to make time for a more productive life.
Silicon Roundabout is home to a large number of IT start-ups.
What I want to ask is how roundabout should I be?
I really ought to stop writing so many confusing and roundabout sentences that - I am sure - no-one can begin to understand.
The story goes in a roundabout way.
Tom does everything in such a roundabout way.
His car lost control at a roundabout and flipped.
He lost control of the car at a roundabout and it flipped.
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[S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
"Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
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