The phrase "a tortuous path" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a complicated or winding route, either literally or metaphorically, often implying difficulty or complexity in a situation.
Example: "The negotiations took a tortuous path, filled with unexpected challenges and setbacks."
Alternatives: "a winding road" or "a convoluted journey".
The fructose case has followed a tortuous path over its many years.
The June 7th election was merely the first step on a tortuous path to the formation of a new government.
Doctors must thread a catheter from up the groin, navigating a tortuous path to the delicate brain arteries.
The FBI took a tortuous path to link McNeil to various social media accounts, the affidavit shows.
IT IS the first step on a tortuous path to a destination that will take months, if not years, to reach.
Discerning the degree of this effect, however, means tracing a tortuous path between global climate trends and intensely local demographics and epidemiology.
Generally speaking, a wider distribution of turning angles indicate a more tortuous path comprising many turns, whereas a narrower distribution usually corresponds to more directed movement.
Attempts to identify the serial killer known as the monster of Florence followed a similarly tortuous path, with the principal suspect dying before his final appeal was heard and his two alleged accomplices being convicted at least 26 years after the first murder.An academic study in 2012* argued that American criticism arose from a misunderstanding of how Italian justice works.
He said that their advocates "trod a pretty tortuous path through that maze that is called the Pentagon, and gradually we were able to brush aside the doubting Thomases, who were the traditionalists and the orthodox, and the objections of the C.I.A., who were fearful we'd tread on their charter".
The presence of silicate layers may be expected to decrease the water uptake due to a more tortuous path for the diffusing molecules that must bypass impenetrable platelets.
The permeability to water vapor and oxygen of the nanocomposites containing TrGO significantly decreased with increasing filler load due to a more tortuous path to gas permeation.
