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

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

That may, of course, be Mr. Joseph’s point: We are as confounded by the tortuous vagaries of their painful histories, and by their stubborn inability to connect, as they themselves are.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Which was tortuous because I’m like, “How do I recreate this thing that I didn’t even fully make myself?”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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