roundabout

Example Sentences

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Instead, the no-audits pledge followed a roundabout path.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

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

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

I wished I had the courage to go by the Service staircase and so by roundabout way to the restaurant, and there warn him of the ambush.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier