How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

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• And the convoluted process means that the terms budget, ...
  — Ron Estes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• The book, which gets convoluted, isn’t the sole problem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• How does any of this fit into the convoluted timeline of the last 19 Zelda games?
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• None of Scorsese’s Mafia movies were as convoluted as this.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• And in the second act, the twists in the plot become convoluted and its denouement doesn’t entirely make sense to me.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• The convoluted process required to tease a first-rate picture out of an AI is quickly emerging as a fine-art skill.
  — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
• The more convoluted the machinations, the better the payoff.
  — Vulture, 24 July 2023
• Angie said through convoluted gasps brought on by racing Adderall thoughts that Saint died at his desk so Jean could get his job.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Sailing is the act of going nowhere fast in the most convoluted fashion imaginable.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 28 Aug. 2022
• The script takes the game’s lead player, Mike, and tries to add a human dimension by giving him a convoluted backstory.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• The movie’s plot is a little convoluted — not uncommon for Selick — and involves both the heroes and the villains freely crossing the boundaries between life and death.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• As mentioned, the current system for caregivers is a convoluted web of ideas that’s hard to untangle.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• But the mystery loses its way as suspects pile up and the plot grows more convoluted, though the film does add in an intriguing real-life Agatha Christie angle.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• The story is somewhat convoluted and need not detain us.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023
• Lankov argues that this is a convoluted distortion of one of the real-life grotesqueries of North Korean life.
  — Will Sommer, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• This will probably be less annoying, though much more convoluted in the way that it's applied.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
• And then through a very convoluted secret route, receiving that money back in his own pocket.
  — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The way medicines are paid for in the U.S. has become so convoluted that some drugmakers are setting two prices for the same drug—and many health plans are choosing to cover the more expensive version.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• The changes aim to straighten out a convoluted leadership structure.
  — Jonel Aleccia, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• Storylines and characters get convoluted, the series takes far too long to hit its stride, and costuming truly should’ve let Jackson keep the beard as Dan in the present.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• How could an animal follow such a convoluted route back to its origin?
  — Dana MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• But as the convoluted plot wears on, [filmmaker David] Cronenberg’s transgressive kink looks more and more played out.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• The answer, though seemingly convoluted, is very simple: there’s not enough money in the budget.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• Aid groups describe this as a convoluted and time-consuming process.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• The union argues that the payment system is convoluted and arbitrary.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• But how the water actually gets to people is a convoluted and deeply politicized process.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• In the comics, Adam has a long and convoluted history, having taken on different forms since his 1967 debut.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• Coley-Pearson was born in an era when Southern states forced convoluted literacy tests on voters to keep Black people out of the polls.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2022
• To merely venture out, by foot or by car, was to risk being confronted by the armed men stationed at a convoluted pattern of checkpoints throughout Tripoli.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024