Sample Sentences fortortuous (auto-selected)
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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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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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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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That is a wide region of sluggish fen where the stream becomes tortuous and much divided.† (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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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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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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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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Laila remembered Tariq's hands, soft but strong, the tortuous, full veins on the backs of them, which she had always found so appealingly masculine.† (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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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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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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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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