Sentence examples for somewhat circuitous from inspiring English sources

The phrase "somewhat circuitous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a route or explanation that is indirect or longer than necessary.
Example: "The speaker's explanation was somewhat circuitous, making it difficult for the audience to follow the main point."
Alternatives: "rather convoluted" or "somewhat roundabout."

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However, the software that is applied for quantification is somewhat circuitous and needs actually above average manual operation.

It would enter London at St Pancras and continue underground to Heathrow, a somewhat circuitous route.

Raised in Montreal, Marinoff followed a somewhat circuitous route to his role as philosophical counseling's American figurehead.

Hence, if asked my name, I might supply the somewhat circuitous answer: "You can call me Maggie".

The 2005 decree was the somewhat circuitous result of an American giant's foiled attempt to buy Danone, a French yogurt-maker.

"It's by design," Matt Malatesta, the college's vice president for admissions, financial aid and enrollment, said of the somewhat circuitous directions.

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The route was slightly circuitous.

Circuitous and sharply abrupt in execution, the short subject jibes at the temptations thrust at his somewhat naive hero by both the religious and the laity, and by Satan in the guise of a voluptuous Silvia Pinal.

Boring and circuitous.

Circuitous Blues New Haven.

Our route was necessarily circuitous.

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