The train made a circuitous route back to the city center every day.
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Circuitous
/sɜːˈkjuːɪtəs/
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Since the trail is so circuitous, it sometimes feels like you aren't getting any closer to the peak.
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I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
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The train service on this circuitous route to the City was withdrawn during the 1914-1918 war, and never restored. The track between Addison Road and Ravenscourt Park was removed, and the site is now occupied by blocks of flats.
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