Example sentences for: tortuous

How can you use “tortuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You can make the long walk from Orient, or drive most of the way to the summit up narrow and tortuous lanes, starting a little north of Alaró.

  • Kunming was also the Chinese terminus for supplies traveling down the tortuous Burma Road; milestone “0” — otherwise unmarked — can be seen on the right side of the road 21 km (13 miles) from the center of Kunming, on the edge of the Western Hills.

  • Puffy, bureaucratic verbiage if often called gobbledygook, a word credited to Texas congressman Maury Maverick, who compared the tortuous (and torturous) prose of Washington bureaucrats to the senseless gobbling of turkeys.

  • Out of the way beaches where you can find some solitude tend to lie down narrow tortuous roads in remote parts of the island.

  • Architects and sculptors treat the myriad parks and gardens as set designs, and nature turns the landscapes, replete with statuesque cypresses, tortuous olive and fig trees, and rows of vineyards, into so many artful backdrops for the daily brio and histrionics of la vita italiana.


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