How to Use tortuous in a Sentence

tortuous

adjective

• And even when the rules do apply, the process is tortuous.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
• If [the dosage] is less, [the person] will go through very tortuous scenes.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• Just to, just to bring it to the fore and remind people, uh, how, how tortuous this has been.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 25 Feb. 2022
• The typing wasn’t the only tortuous part of the writing process for her.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2022
• The roads are all tortuous and the houses are high up from the street, each with a garden of some sort in its small front yard.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• Time and again, the movie strains for effect, favoring the tortuous over the plain.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• And like some kind of tortuous finger trap, the more London has fought against it, the tighter and more painful the bind has become.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2020
• Building a mosque in France is a tortuous endeavor at the best of times.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• The path to full-on enlightenment is, of course, a bit more tortuous.
  — Robert Wright, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2018
• For the first time in Britain's tortuous Brexit saga, the true believers are running the show.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 27 July 2019
• Among the many milestones that marked the tortuous path of Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive stands out.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2018
• What many loyal readers of Mr. King see as the magnum opus of his career has had a tortuous road to the big screen.
  — Gilbert Cruz, New York Times, 3 May 2017
• The tortuous games –the type that combine a lot of nail-biting and lead to higher blood pressure– are the ones the Giants have been winning.
  — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• That’s just a sample during a tortuous one-week stretch.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
• At the end of this long, tortuous road stand the smoldering remains of the tower in North Kensington.
  — Ian Volner, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
• His long, tortuous recovery won him the Comeback Player of the Year award.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
• The case took a tortuous route before landing in Ms. Dunikowski’s lap.
  — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• A month later, Lynn filmed Nick’s tortuous, nearly two-minute process of figuring out how to put on a T-shirt and ball cap.
  — S.l. Price, SI.com, 9 May 2017
• The reunion capped a tortuous day for Sanchez, who was accompanied at times by her son.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 7 July 2023
• Even in the recent era of plodding and tortuous pace of play, there was zero chance of getting all that research into a game.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• The new design marks the latest chapter in the project’s tortuous history.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• The bottom line is that the tortuous student debt complex punishes too many of the people that it is supposed to help.
  — Caitlin Zaloom, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
• This all seems inhumane and tortuous after knowing that there’s a better way to work and lead your life.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• An 80-year-old grandmother jets halfway around the world in her tortuous quest to exhume her father's bones from a mass grave.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• The collapse of the tortuous year-and-a-half partnership, Bratcher notes, came as Sound of Freedom was taking off in theaters.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• This chart shows the tortuous paths that evolution has taken in these beetles.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
• But having a more functional Muni system is just one step in the long, tortuous process to get people out of their cars.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• For one year and three days, marchers followed a tortuous route that wound west before looping north to Yan'an in central Shaanxi province.
  — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
• The themes of this embarrassing episode were recapitulated throughout two more tortuous years of talks.
  — Mike Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2023
• The entire tortuous experience of Gabe’s first love is comically and adorably narrated by Hutcherson, embodying a child but bringing wisdom and weariness beyond his years to the role.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024