Sample Sentences for
circuitous
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    We took a circuitous route back to our hotel so we could see more of the city.
    circuitous = indirect (not the straightest or quickest)
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    I've just decided to try and loop back around, although it will require miles of travel away from the inferno and then a very circuitous route back, when...  (source)
    circuitous = indirect (longer because it is not straight)
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    Horses and ponies had been sent round by circuitous paths to meet them at their appointed landing-place.  (source)
    circuitous = indirect
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    "I see you want to," Laila said, irritated by this circuitous, playful accusation.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Shortley waited until the car was out of sight and then she made her way circuitously to the mulberry tree and stood about ten feet behind the two Negroes, one an old man holding a bucket half full of calf feed and the other a yellowish boy with a short woodchuck-like head pushed into a rounded felt hat.†  (source)
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    The children moved closer with elaborate circuitousness, edging inward in long curves.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    As if climbing the peak alone in winter weren't challenging enough, this time he decided to up the ante even further by beginning his ascent at sea level, which entailed walking 160 hard, circuitous miles from the shore of Cook Inlet just to reach the foot of the mountain.†  (source)
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    I turned about, no longer aimless, and went—circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways, towards the back streets north of the Strand; for I remembered, though not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district.†  (source)
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    The ship's captain—she was Ki, tall and covered in ritual scars—let fall in an oblique, circuitous way that she and all her crew thought I'd taken Seivarden on as a charity case.†  (source)
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    He had arrived at the truth circuitously: circuitously it would have to be explained.†  (source)
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    The King's Route was wide and straight, crossing the more circuitous Sacred Way twice again before reaching the docks.†  (source)
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    Despite my desire to throw my arms about their pliant forms and to draw down towards me the starry locks that crowned their fragrant heads, we would pass them by without stopping, for my parents had ceased to visit Tansonville since Swann's marriage, and, so as not to appear to be looking into his park, we would, instead of taking the road which ran beside its boundary and then climbed straight up to the open fields, choose another way, which led in the same direction, but circuitously, and brought us out rather too far from home.†  (source)
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    I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care, avoiding almost entirely the major roads; the route might have seemed necessarily circuitous to some, but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes, and I must say I was well pleased with it.†  (source)
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