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

"I do think it could have a roundabout effect in a positive light, because of the profit the clubs are generating off these youth sales," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 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

In a roundabout way she was talking to me.

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos