Sentence examples for roundabout paths from inspiring English sources

Sharks that could smell soon figured out the right direction, but those with plugged nostrils took more roundabout paths and didn't make it as far home before their transmitters fell off, the researchers reported today in PLOS ONE.

I would choose different, roundabout paths to my classes, just to avoid where I knew you'd be.

It's taken a long, roundabout path for him to arrive here.

These together drove him inexorably, and by a roundabout path, to the Greek East.

The tenor saxophonist ELLERY ESKELIN took a roundabout path to the Hammond B-3 organ trio, though he didn't have to travel far to find it.

He took a roundabout path to the theater, studying mathematics at the University of Chicago and eventually entering the tape recorder business.

But the soldiers don't always show up, the children say, and then the kids take an hour and a half roundabout path to school to avoid going near the settlers.

Once again, Mr. Speaker changed his travel plans, moving up his departure date and slipping out of the country on a roundabout path that would take him to Prague and Montreal, where he rented a car to return to the United States.

Owing to a series of unspecified previous controversies, they can't drive through half the counties that would permit a direct route to freedom, and have to navigate a roundabout path via various telly sofas and media platforms.

The studies showed that, though babies expect inanimate objects to move as the result of push-pull interactions, they expect people to move rationally in accordance with their beliefs and desires: babies show surprise when someone takes a roundabout path to something he wants.

But according to the data it made public, a crucial outage of two major transmission lines in Ohio at 4 09 p.m. effectively cut the state in two and forced electricity to take a roundabout path through Indiana and Michigan to reach the power-hungry area that includes Cleveland.