tortuous

Example Sentences

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He expects to feel a sense of freedom that always eluded him during his lengthy and often tortuous quest to land the famous green jacket.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The modern-day Gunners now stand nine games from ending that tortuous wait for glory, five points ahead of Manchester City, who have a game in hand.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

After a tortuous and contested process, a federal judge endorsed a roughly $6 billion bid by Amber.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Gelman’s examples include a claim offered in the book “Freakonomics” that “beautiful parents are 36% more likely to have girl babies,” derived from a tortuous calculation by a British statistician.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

My Jamaican rear gunner and I took a tortuous route over a series of garden walls to avoid the checkpoint on the road.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein