Examples of 'tortuous' in a sentence
Meaning of "tortuous"
Tortuous describes something that is full of twists and turns, or excessively complicated
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- Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
- Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
- Injurious; tortious.
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This tortuous formula raises three problems.
In a most brutal and tortuous manner as well.
A tortuous path is neither airtight nor watertight.
There a long and tortuous relationship emerges.
But the path towards peace is tortuous.
This is a tortuous path for the sterilant.
My mind is flooded with these tortuous memories.
The tortuous road to liberal democracy.
This sentence is rather tortuous and contradictory.
These channels are in places narrow and tortuous.
It resulted in seven years of tortuous bureaucratic decision making.
To the west the boundary is more tortuous.
Laski had a tortuous writing style.
A name that needs no explanation or tortuous wordplay.
There are large tortuous glands filled with secretions.
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The crack path is indeed more tortuous.
The bill has gone through a tortuous process in parliament.
The path to the referendum promises to be tortuous.
They enforce a slow tortuous murder upon themselves.
Entrepreneurship can be a long and tortuous road.
It was a tortuous time for the inhabitants of the region.
Brexit will require further tortuous talks.
Through a tortuous process some said.
Veins that dilate and become tortuous.
The tortuous path towards abundance.
This meeting was hijacked through tortuous manipulation.
In such tortuous logic is found the death of empires.
The membrane may be corrugated or of a tortuous configuration.
A tortuous colon is one that is longer than normal.
The procedural history of this case is tortuous.
The tortuous intensity has always put me on my nerves.
Marc chronicles his story in tortuous detail.
As tortuous as that process is for me.
The path in the future is bound to be tortuous.
And then the really tortuous stuff began.
Asylum processes can be long and tortuous.
Then passes through tortuous swamps and unknown caverns.
The shore of the pond is naturally tortuous.
Criminal and tortuous liability.
The path to meaningful social change is tortuous.
Awful reasoning and tortuous verbosity.
Blood vessels in tumors are frequently small and tortuous.
The seal may include a tortuous fluid path.
It is tortuous to have to deal with thousands of hairs a day that are.
Flexible enough to negotiate tortuous blood vessels.
Wilson underwent tortuous experimentation but remained in good spirits.
However this requires a tortuous air path.
The tortuous section may adopt many different forms.
The second day was just tortuous.
Slow and tortuous thought.
