How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

adjective

• That may sound convoluted — kill more moose to help moose survive.
  — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2021
• These types of convoluted structures had been used by OceanGate for years.
  — Mark Harris, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• The convoluted strings of letters, numbers and dots are deeply meaningful for the scientists who devised them, but how was anyone else supposed to keep them straight?
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• But the Google map in the phone started ‘misbehaving’ — giving wrong or convoluted directions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• Few teams as talented as Texas also can make putting the ball in the hoop look as difficult as solving some convoluted quantum mechanics equation.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2021
• And although the convoluted storyline teeters right on the edge of ludicrous, The Wilds wears its soapy quality lightly.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
• And like Lost, the group is a ragtag bunch of attractive strangers from very different backgrounds, and their situation is far more convoluted than a simple accident.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
• But decisions about other activities and social engagements remain as convoluted as before for many.
  — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2021
• Here on Earth, an alternative solution is far less convoluted, one not requiring a full mental gymnastics routine.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2021
• And the convoluted process means that the terms budget, ...
  — Ron Estes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• The taxes are high, the highways around me are a convoluted mess, and the winters are a drag.
  — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• The back story on what led to the turnabout is a bit convoluted, but bear with me.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The book, which gets convoluted, isn’t the sole problem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• How does any of this fit into the convoluted timeline of the last 19 Zelda games?
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• These groups fill a gap in a convoluted health-care system, Bergen told me.
  — Tonya Russell, The Atlantic, 21 May 2021
• The three leads are the anchors in a very convoluted, very sweaty love triangle, which spans decades.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 May 2024
• If things have gotten a little out of sorts or a bit convoluted, now is the time to make sure that everything is on the up and up.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
• None of Scorsese’s Mafia movies were as convoluted as this.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the process turned out to be more convoluted than expected.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• If the writers try to find a way to twist the prophecy's meaning and thus shock the audience, the results can be clever or just convoluted.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 1 July 2024
• And in the second act, the twists in the plot become convoluted and its denouement doesn’t entirely make sense to me.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• The convoluted process required to tease a first-rate picture out of an AI is quickly emerging as a fine-art skill.
  — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• In trying to save itself, the Saw series got caught in a convoluted trap of its own making.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
• Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Metroid series has a decades-long, convoluted history with a lot of gaps in between.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• The saga of Moss’s involvement in Depp and Heard’s ever tawdry trial is a bit convoluted.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 25 May 2022
• This has to be the most convoluted and cockamamie apology on the books for Stalin’s mass murder.
  — Algis Valiunas, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• The more convoluted the machinations, the better the payoff.
  — Vulture, 24 July 2023
• The few highlights are undone by a convoluted mythology, plenty of clichés and a lack of scares.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• All of this is much more convoluted than the way Gladiator steadily drew Maximus and Commodus together, their final battle taking on the inevitability of fate.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024