Sentence examples for convoluted phrase from inspiring English sources

First in early August, he suggested that "second amendment people," whatever that convoluted phrase means, would take care of things should she be elected.

He just arrives — sometimes as part of an extremely convoluted phrase — in a rock-solid position on one foot with no "voilà" to let us know that other dancers might find that hard.

In many cases, one or two words can say the same thing with greater impact than a long, convoluted phrase.

That convoluted phrasing was understood by all parties to refer to the Internet, delegates said, but without referring to it by name so no one could call it an Internet treaty.

These convoluted phrases have given me far too many thought spasms.

But instead of a clear statement of condemnation, politicians will discuss an opaque, tortuously-worded sentence, which aims to be unclear enough to keep everyone happy - with the sort of convoluted phrasing that the German language is so good at.

Critics say the phrasing is convoluted and uses economic terms such as "debt sustainability analysis" without providing any explanation of what they mean.

Even aside from the stray "the," the phrasing seems awfully convoluted, and the plural "include" does not agree with the singular "list".

The algorithm detected the negation of pertinent terms but was confused by particularly wordy or convoluted negation phrases e.g., "No obvious or real cough" or "No cough in the past few weeks but has started in the last day".

That phrase set off by commas, it a convoluted, preening muscle-flex, is a big problem.

Very few modern people have seen their name become an adjective, as "Rube Goldberg" is used to describe any convoluted, overcomplicated system (heard perhaps most often in the phrase, "our Rube Goldberg Tax Code").