Sentence examples for a roundabout claim from inspiring English sources

And one choice has only a roundabout claim to be a word.First up: "vape", chosen by Oxford Dictionaries.

In the first six months of opening, Roundabout claims to have helped prevent 163 young people from becoming homeless.

So, in a roundabout way, the states claimed that federal law preempted Colorado's 2012 constitutional amendment regulating marijuana use and commercialization -- thus frustrating the federal government's efforts to fight drug trafficking and related crimes elsewhere.

Ultimately, Baraka was to prove too romantic and radical to achieve political office, yet one might claim that his triumph has been posthumous and reached by a roundabout route.

Mr. Yang reappeared four days later, claiming he had been ill, but many friends interpreted his cryptic explanation as a roundabout acknowledgment that he had been detained by the police.

Yes, in a roundabout way.

I always take a roundabout way".

Metrosexual has become a roundabout homophobic taunt.

Crawford reached Xavier in a roundabout way.

He did, in a roundabout way.

"A roundabout is an oasis in tarmac.