Sentence examples for roundabout manner from inspiring English sources

The first client at the Beattie McGuinness New York office, Samsung, arrived in a roundabout manner.

At first Mr. Goodman approaches his subject in a roundabout manner.

He also created the cartoon character Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, an inventor of contraptions that accomplished simple ends in a roundabout manner.

In Nov. lieutenant Gansvoort, second in command, reported to the Commander that in a roundabout manner he had heard of a mutinous conspiracy aboard.

Like the Mikado, they can "let the punishment fit the crime.In other words, rather than fiddling about with interest rates to pop the bubble in a roundabout manner, the Fed could have steadily upped its lending requirements, targeting the problem directly.

Stewart and Costas then discussed the roundabout manner in which Sandusky answered a question about his sexual attraction to underage boys.

His sometimes-roundabout manner of questioning leads to comparisons with the television character Columbo.

Yes, in a roundabout way.

I always take a roundabout way".

Crawford reached Xavier in a roundabout way.

He did, in a roundabout way.