| Flying over the high mountain ranges emphasises why road travel is so tortuous, but the sight of these peaks and ravines is awe-inspiring. |
| In patients with chronic septic lung disease, the bronchial arteries are usually enlarged and tortuous and may engulf the pulmonary hila. |
| Its rulers could not have been that lethargic, or its diplomacy so tortuous, for it to have survived for such a long period. |
| Published in 1967, L' amante Anglaise chronicles the tortuous windings and turnings of a mind perilously close to the edge of reason. |
| The tortuous passage restricts or baffles the gas flow out of the glass assembly. |
| Most of all, there's the tortoise-like tortuous issue of local loop unbundling, Eircom, Esat and the regulator. |
