Sentence examples for tortuous day from inspiring English sources

The election was long and bitter – with accusations of corruption liberally strewn about by both sides – but after a tortuous day of presentations and arguments followed by a secret ballot of 175 delegates from national chess federations, it was Ilyumzhinov who prevailed, winning the support of 110 delegates to 61.

Announcing record financial losses is one thing, but it is the impoverished state of the team that will most gall Leeds supporters; this was a sorry way to end a tortuous, occasionally torturous, day for them.

Though no one wanted to dwell on the tortuous process during Thursday's ceremony, everyone remarked on it.

After surviving a tortuous passage on Friday, the British number two now has the chance to push out of the world's top 50 the record winner of grand-slam titles.

It was the latest uncomfortable moment in a long, tortuous campaign for Sunday's election in which Hofer, who despite his anti-immigration platform disputes the label "far-right," says he has drawn encouragement from Donald Trump's presidential victory in the United States.

It would also go some way towards explaining why Mayweather-Pacquiao, which was finally announced by the former on Friday after years of tortuous negotiations, could one day be known as boxing's last bona fide 'super-fight'.

WHEN Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah arrived in the Netherlands on Monday, a tortuous wrangle seemed brought to an end.

But at Irving Plaza, with hundreds of fans shouting along, Thursday's tortuous parables sounded just like the hard-rock anthems the band wants them to be.

— David Padgett took far too tortuous a path to Saturday night's N.C.A.A. tournament East Region final to say that the game brings him full circle in his college career.

Even for those not stuck in elevators, the trip out of the buildings that day was often tortuous.

Is it just coincidence that so many of them are calling it a day after this tortuous marathon?