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How to use tortuously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tortuously? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I have sent four e-mails via the tortuously confusing BBC Website contacts page and made over a dozen phone calls to various departments.
His comments were tortuously analysed, letters were published and editorials were written.
Last night I went through a series of garish and tortuously overplotted dreams.
Cardiff had to light up to eight rooms at a time, with electricians following a tortuously complex series of lighting cues.
Their forwards were absolutely dominant, crabbing down the pitch, albeit at a tortuously slow rate.
The first sign of life is a tiny vehicle, winding its way tortuously along the thin white thread of a dirt road snaking through the rocky terrain.
But the next 500 or so are a gradually palling, tortuously overlong and self-indulgent joke.
The author keeps up a strong narrative drive, guiding the reader through the tortuously involved negotiations of the Congress.
Sinister castles shrouded in mystery, deep, dark dungeons and tortuously winding corridors lure adventurers into a lost world.
The only way to reach it is by two-lane roads, most of which twist tortuously through the scenic coastal mountain range or along the rocky Pacific coast.
The way that capitalism shifts money from place to place, account to account, in order to make it work for the investor often is tortuously complicated.
Slowly, tortuously and doubtless with many setbacks, change will come.
So this directive, as finally and tortuously agreed, is a step in the right direction towards providing Europeans, both individuals and SMEs, with a modern, efficient and reasonably-priced money transmission service.
A plan unveiled last week by the finance minister, Grzegorz Kolodko, to streamline the public sector in preparation for EU entry will be tortuously hard to approve.
Jerusalem would be tortuously but fastidiously divided, allowing each side to have its capital there, with international oversight of the holy places.
In the wake of the retreating ice sheets there sprang up a jumbled mass of rugged, closely-crowded hills, interspersed with treacherous muskeg bogs, tortuously winding rivers and creeks, and an endless maze of lakes.
The Jerusalem group obviously antedates the tensions which Paul addressed so tortuously in his antithetical treatment of faith in Christ and observance of the Law.
More satisfying than the tortuously modelled mythological, court, and war scenes are their decorative borders, where stitchery flexes its proper powers.
Examples from Classical Literature
Cautiously, tortuously, they made their way ahead for what seemed like ages, pausing frequently to listen.
They crept on tortuously in serpentine curves through the long, dry grasses.
On the testimony of his own letters it is clear he did not mind how tortuously and perfidiously he worked.
Breathes there a man so tortuously afflicted with strabismus that he doesn't see it?
Mrs. Martin had slowly and tortuously worked up to her climax, and she shot forth the last sentence with a jubilant ring.
After a third defeat this thread seemed to guide me to daylight from a tortuously winding cavern.
The process is tortuously slow, but the gestation of a new humanity cannot be hurried by impatience.
Earlier, a tip tackle from Dominiko Waqaniburotu had been pored over at tortuously unnecessary length.
It is always disguised, tortuously at times, as being in continuity with all that went before.
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