Sentence examples for less direct route from inspiring English sources

His foray into film took a less direct route.

It's a less direct route, but pleasanter, because fewer cars use it.

Often the cheaper flight requires a less direct route and a stopover, but that doesn't have to mean longer total travel time.

In short, what the Timberwolves hoped would be a more or less direct route to the playoffs has become a Byzantine set of detours.

Majd was beaten up so badly the first time he tried to cross the Turkish border, alone, that he lost two front teeth, later replaced with a crown, before the whole group tried a less direct route.

Just when she'd done her cardiovascular system a power of good... Still, he knew from being a teacher that there were times when you had to confront and times when you took a less direct route.

If it refuses to pony up, some of the traffic would continue to pass through its existing Comcast interchange, while any extra load would be shunted onto other, less direct routes to reach Comcast customers.

Hence the characteristic shape of a lens: a round piece of glass that is thick in the middle, where the straight-line path crosses, and tapers off towards the edge, where the less direct routes do.Dr Capasso's lens, described in a recent issue of the journal Nano Letters, also slows photons down.

The result is a round piece of glass that is thick in the middle, where the straight-line path crosses, and tapers off towards the edge, where the less direct routes do—in other words, a focusing lens, with its focal point at B.Dr Capasso's lens, described in Nano Letters, also slows photons down.

Migrating birds often make migrations in stages, approximating the most direct route on each stage but yielding a less direct path from origin to the final destination [25].

Would-be passengers were steered onto shuttle buses for the much less direct land route: Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, B.Q.E., Verrazano Bridge.