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Six example sentences with tortuous, each labelled with its topic.
The palace corridors are deliberately tortuous, so a visitor arriving unannounced would be lost long before reaching the throne room.
Architecture
The company's ownership runs through a tortuous chain of holdings in four countries, and no filing names an actual person.
Law
Unwinding the position took a tortuous sequence of swaps, each one undoing part of a hedge placed years earlier.
Finance
The road to the monastery is tortuous, forty hairpin bends in nine kilometers, and the bus driver takes each one at walking pace.
Travel
The plot is tortuous, with four narrators, two false endings, and a letter that changes meaning every time it is reread.
Literature
The coalition talks were tortuous, eleven weeks of shifting alliances in which the smallest party changed sides three times.
Politics
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