How to Use circuitous in a Sentence

circuitous

adjective

• Their logic seems a bit circuitous.
• Davis took a circuitous route to get back.
  — Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
• And even that route was circuitous.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
• Slate took a circuitous path to both love and comedic stardom.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
• Finding a way to good health has been an even more circuitous route.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
• Iza’s path into this world was circuitous.
  — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
• Castro traveled a circuitous route in life to end up at the school.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• But this time, the riff seemed to come out of nowhere and was even more circuitous than usual.
  — Ashley Parker, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Scared to lead them to the shelter, Waulter took a circuitous route.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Choi’s path to breaking was as circuitous as the sport’s path was to Paris.
  — David Aldridge, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
• But the bar is high, judging by the circuitous, two-year journey of this bill.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Casey and Miller's idea took a long and circuitous route getting to the big screen.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• The station is on the airport's east side, and the tracks take a circuitous route to get there.
  — Tim Zorn, Post-Tribune, 12 May 2017
• Seat-holders who paid up to $250 each, came by circuitous routes.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Spunky, who is now nearly 2 years old, came to Kukol through a circuitous route.
  — oregonlive.com, 13 July 2019
• It’s been a circuitous route, but every step was taken to get me into a job like this.
  — Beren Cross, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
• Perhaps, but the routes through the world to that state of being are circuitous and varied.
  — Veronique Greenwood, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• The rest of my twenties were a very circuitous adventure.
  — R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Sep. 2025
• Williams’ circuitous journey to the Rams started nine years ago.
  — Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• That inspired me to walk off lunch by taking a circuitous stroll down to the docks in search of a water taxi.
  — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
• The book’s circuitous path to publication is at least part of the reason for this.
  — Adelle Waldman, New Yorker, 31 May 2025
• Of the two, Riley took a more circuitous route to being drafted.
  — Paul Johnson, Aurora Beacon-News, 14 June 2017
• And never has the route been more circuitous than for these pandemic Olympics.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 June 2021
• To get to this point, Toscano-Anderson took a circuitous route.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• But like a pint-sized Ulysses, George never stays in one place for long on his circuitous route home.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• All of the sudden, Mile High became the world’s most circuitous sports bar.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 8 June 2017
• All of these little circuitous bits of water are the canals, and those are the beavers’ highway systems.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
• Bennett’s journey was more circuitous.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
• For Payne, it's been a long and circuitous road to get to the house on Clayton Street.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Bringing the tooth and the rest of the animal into focus took a circuitous route, though.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2012