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How can you use “convolutions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The press, gripped by Herman's not-especially-notable part in the Democratic National Committee fund-raising scandal, has largely ignored the many interesting convolutions in her various roles.
More important, he distills from the novel a mournfully wry fable on the all-consuming convolutions of jealousy.
The Donald is well known in SoCal, but in the convolutions of the Reform Party, my money is still on Jesse Ventura.
To wholly relate how that happens--the plot involves a missionary New Jersey cardinal (George Carlin), the devil, and two fallen, somewhat insane angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)--would not only ruin the surprise, it would ruin this review, since there are nearly as many convolutions in the narrative as there are in Scripture.
Such convolutions of phrasal meaning (an aspect of what some call intertextuality) is a common rhetorical device, especially perhaps at the arty end of journalism.