roundabout

Example Sentences

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Next to a roundabout, a field had become a makeshift cemetery for fighters.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

“This is such a roundabout, long-winded way of doing a rejection,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

About 20 miles south of downtown Cincinnati, the new Publix sits just past a roundabout at the front entrance of a glitzy subdivision known as Triple Crown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The main house featured an elaborate sculpture of a stallion trampling a dragon in the roundabout out front.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman