Examples of 'roundabout way' in a sentence
Meaning of "roundabout way"
roundabout way: This phrase is used to describe an indirect, lengthy, or circuitous approach to achieving a goal, conveying a message, or resolving a situation. It implies a method that is not straightforward or immediate
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I had to go a roundabout way of finding my dream again.
We were just talking about you in a roundabout way.
It came out in a roundabout way during a conversation.
Unless of course this is your roundabout way.
And find a roundabout way to pay for it.
He said he would take the roundabout way.
I will take a roundabout way to the palace.
Putting on an act and speaking in a roundabout way.
That was a really roundabout way of saying that.
A roundabout way of keeping the price low.
Seems like a real roundabout way home.
Kind of a roundabout way of finding out if you like her.
So i guess this is just my roundabout way of saying.
This is a roundabout way of setting up your request.
Tolkien does mention this in a roundabout way in a letter.
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This is not a roundabout way of justifying my own prolificacy.
Hatshepsut had became pharaoh in a roundabout way.
That was a very roundabout way of getting me into bed.
It had therefore been necessary to find a roundabout way to broach it.
Bob took a roundabout way his phone number.
One on one is the roundabout way.
I took the roundabout way to elude the baying hounds.
So you take the roundabout way.
This is a roundabout way of moving toward a world without borders.
You obey orders in a roundabout way.
They take a roundabout way home using several cabs.
Tom does everything in such a roundabout way.
There is no roundabout way to say it.
I hit pay dirt on him in sort of a roundabout way.
Which is a very roundabout way of saying.
Well you went at it in a bit of a roundabout way.
Seems like an awfully roundabout way to get rid of somebody.
A man who says things in a very roundabout way.
Doing it in a roundabout way like this.
Or else she would not have warned us in such a roundabout way.
So i guess this is just my roundabout way of saying my pussy.
The issue of political capital is raised here in a somewhat roundabout way.
It gives you a roundabout way to search for free images.
Are you telling me in some roundabout way.
If you go the roundabout way maybe no one will see you.
Instead of taking this roundabout way.
Corey had a very roundabout way of teaching tough life lessons.
Do not say it in a roundabout way.
It uses the roundabout way of deliberation and counsel only by accident.
All of this seemed to be a very roundabout way of picking oranges.
This was a roundabout way of telling Jircniv exactly who was in charge here.
But education in a roundabout way.
Which is a pretty roundabout way of getting half the way to ten billion.
They said no in a roundabout way.
This has been a roundabout way to explain that our schools are not equal.
