roundabout way
Example Sentences
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Dunn came to this club in a roundabout way.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026
So in a roundabout way, VAR protocol meant Arsenal were penalised for Taylor not getting the red card correct.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
What happened Tuesday is serious and big, but I start in a roundabout way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025
They took me a roundabout way to the fake beach, and then I knew what would happen—a good, old-fashioned dunking in the lake—and I calmed down.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
