Sentence examples for to be convoluted from inspiring English sources

Christopher McCord Houston, Dec. 28, 2009 To the Editor: Why does any tax have to be convoluted?

I also found the 3M-50 operating manual to be convoluted and the touch screen not very precise; sometimes when I was trying to press one button, I wound up engaging another.

And the terms and conditions we have seen tend to be convoluted and full of legalese".

In this case, the strong compressional stress exerted in the overlying silt interval due to sliding (discussed below) may have retarded the upward injection of liquefied sand or evidence of the upward injection may have been erased by the sliding to be convoluted portion (the lower portion of the silt part in the Example 1) or to be horizontally stretched as thin sand layers (Examples 1 and 2).

They extend for about 10 12 cm although they will appear shorter due to being convoluted on cross-sectional imaging.

In most mammals the cerebellum is highly developed, and its surface may be convoluted to increase its area.

The thickness of an object's shell also plays a role: If the outer layer is very thin compared to its curvature, an object's surface will likely be convoluted, similar to a fingerprint.

However, the process also can be convoluted.

They can be convoluted, or even aggressive.

His message was that the vice president's approach to tax cuts was convoluted and, to many voters, irrelevant.

A kluge — a term from the engineering and computer science world — refers to something that is convoluted and messy but gets the job done.