long way around
Example Sentences
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"We're needing to go the long way around the Cape of Good Hope to reach some of our key geographies."
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
So the ship carried the cranes with their five outstretched booms the long way around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
He said he was planning a trip towing a trailer which might have to see him go the "long way around" adding significant time and costs.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024
Motorists hoping to visit or leave Newport Beach’s Balboa Island will have to take the long way around next month as the Balboa Island Ferry will temporarily close to vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2021
It had taken him thirty minutes and he was almost back where he had started, but shining the flashlight around him, he saw why Ian Rider had sent him the long way around.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
