How to Use roundabout in a Sentence

roundabout

1 of 2 adjective
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  • He took a roundabout route to town.
  • In a roundabout way, he told me that my help was not wanted.
  • In a roundabout way, the Cavs still reached their end goal.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2021
  • But the loss turned around the season for Utah in a roundabout way.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • All of which is a roundabout way to say: Give me Green Bay.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2020
  • That brings us — in a roundabout way — to tonight's host, Aubrey Plaza.
    — Andy Hoglund updated January 22, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Hayman, 43, came to tidal power in the roundabout way of a sailor.
    — Greta Rybus, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Pottinger took a much more roundabout path to the White House than Matthews.
    — Chris Megerian and Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • Ford, who seems to have been born to be in the spotlight, came to fashion in a roundabout way.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Maybe, in some roundabout way, there was justice in that.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2021
  • That’s kind of a roundabout way to answer your question.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Swan and sonata ended up in the same place, although sonata took a much more roundabout route.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2021
  • And, in a roundabout way, wildebeests would profit, too, as part of the greater ecosystem.
    — Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • For Guzman, it’s been a roundabout path to the position.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the route has been changed to reach the Western Wall, in the Jewish Quarter, in a more roundabout way.
    — Ilan Ben Zion and Joseph Krauss, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
  • Yamamoto and Pritchard split off from Woodcock and her mom and took a roundabout path back to the school.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • This sounds like a roundabout way of saying costs had to be cut and that means some features had to be axed.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The next day, Janson would take three roundabout flights to get to Corsica, for a gig that evening.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • John Behlmann came to Shucked, the new Broadway musical, in a roundabout way.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 2023
  • That's a roundabout way of saying there's been a sudden loss of volume.
    — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
  • But sometimes, the path to Olympic glory can follow a roundabout route.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The refugee took a roundabout journey across Europe from Poland to asylum.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • The airline discloses these fees in a roundabout way on its site.
    — Christopher Elliott, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • That forces them to sometimes take roundabout routes, like three right turns instead of one left turn.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
  • This play has had a very roundabout journey to Broadway thanks to the pandemic.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The path makes its roundabout way toward a fountain with a lone London plane tree at the center.
    — Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Perhaps Goldberg was, in a roundabout way, trying to make that point too.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 21 June 2019
  • This is a roundabout way of saying that not everything need be about Trump.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Taking a roundabout way could get you to better places than trying to bolt straight for the finish line, Aries.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Which, in a roundabout way, brings us to the Rockies’ truncated 2020 season.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 7 July 2020
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roundabout

2 of 2 noun
  • The roundabout has been in the works for more than three years.
    — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Park-and-ride lot near the roundabout at the north end of Tusayan.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2022
  • The parts with the most traffic are the Bastille roundabout and the area near Trocadéro.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2022
  • Aries March 21-April 19 Getting to the point could be a rather roundabout process now.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Where the ancient palaces of the obas of Benin once stood, traffic now whizzes through a large roundabout.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The convoy then turns left before leaving the camp via the roundabout.
    — CNN, 24 May 2022
  • The four workarounds, named by Savaget, are the piggyback, the loophole, the roundabout and the next-best.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The roundabout will help cross traffic merge with the flow of traffic on 33, according to the DOT.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Left behind at the roundabout were the granite base and the sixty-foot column.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Most of the objections raised so far have been to the lane reductions and roundabouts.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • The small landslide damaged a large pipe near the Rambling Road roundabout.
    — Siena Duncan, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The footage shows a calm scene before the reporters came under fire in the outskirts of Jenin refugee camp, near the main Awdeh roundabout.
    — CNN, 24 May 2022
  • Another factor in Shodeen’s decision to amend the land plan is the roundabout that’s to be built on Route 20 in the next few years.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • Crews will be working on the new roundabout and should have the project completed by August 28.
    — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the roundabouts built in the game would be undrivable if constructed in real life.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Olmedo-González said the city intends to let neighbors return the lawn gnomes to the roundabout, now that the statue is finished.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The other is approaching the roundabout at State Street near the Carlsbad border.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Three neighbors spoke to the committee Tuesday about the roundabout.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Elrod said the city was committed to building the roundabout and said the right-in, right out was temporary.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The crowd circled four stone lions that guard the roundabout’s central island.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Westfield is putting in a roundabout at East Street during its State Road 32 widening.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Connecting this roundabout to Wicker Road to the north is a new section of Bluffdale Drive.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2022
  • Gates open at 6, with a red carpet arrival by the team at 6:30, followed by a walk into the stadium from the roundabout on the southeast side to the east gate.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The plans call for installing a roundabout, as well as straightening a 1.3-mile stretch of Darrell Road itself.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Residents said Israeli forces had reached the Ansar roundabout in central Gaza City, a block from its main port.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This won’t work very well in Europe, where there’s a roundabout every 30 seconds in some areas.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Quinones countered that since all three streets didn’t have an unequal flow of traffic, a roundabout made little sense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • This landmark sits in the center of the roundabout of the busy Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.
    — Brande Victorian, Essence, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The reboot will bring back Florence, Dougal, Dylan, Brian and all their friends in the magic garden of the roundabout.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 June 2022
  • Carmel’s first roundabout sculpture was installed in 2011.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2022

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