Sample Sentences fortortuous (auto-selected)
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They have gone down the highways of the South on tortuous rides for freedom. (source)tortuous = complex or with repeated bends and turns
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There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners — and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps. (source)tortuously = with repeated turns and bends
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Then he opened the car door on his side and strolled round to my side, his breath shaping tortuous smoke signals in the gray air. (source)tortuous = marked by repeated turns and bends
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Inhuman conditions at the best of times, tortuous experiments at the worst.† (source)
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My head swarmed with tortuous thoughts of Roberta in somebody else's arms, but it was also my fault.† (source)
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But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up.† (source)
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This was quite complex because of a number of convolutions or tortuous areas in the dura and in the dural plains between their brains, as well as a large, abnormal artery running between the two brains which had to be sectioned.† (source)
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Slowly, tortuously, he at last began to write an answer.† (source)
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And furthermore, the more difficulty and tortuousness there were, the more he felt safe.† (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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Later, when I was sitting at my desk in English, I day-dreamed of slumping over and dying a slow, tortuous death so they each could see how much their ignoring me hurt.† (source)
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Tortuously, through Baig, Mortenson explained his wife was expecting him home in a few days, and that all CAI projects had to be approved by the board.† (source)
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The next day, after his garbage run, O'Dell borrowed his dad's truck and he and Sherman and I went up the tortuous trail to one of the big fans that drove air through the mines.† (source)
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As if the aspiring city had become puffed up in the very ground on which it stood, the ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Yard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out of it by a low gateway into a maze of shabby streets, which went about and about, tortuously ascending to the level again.† (source)
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I drove in the last lorry, through tortuous lanes where the overhanging boughs whipped the windscreen; somewhere we left the lane and turned into a drive; somewhere we reached an open space where two drives converged and a ring of storm lanterns marked the heap of stores.† (source)
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He had finished the appendectomy, then two gastro-jejunostomies for peptic ulcer, three hernia repairs, one hydrocele, a subtotal thyroid resection, and a skin graft, but by his standards it had been tortuously slow.† (source)
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That, in itself, was strange, for in Atlanta every respectable newcomer hastened to present his credentials, to tell proudly of his home and family, to trace the tortuous mazes of relationship that stretched over the entire South.† (source)
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