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Example sentences for "circuitously"

Lexicographically close words:
circuit; circuite; circuited; circuiting; circuitous; circuits; circuitu; circular; circularity; circularize
  1. Dearest Sir,--I believe I told you that the advanced state of the season rendered it necessary to go to Arabia circuitously by way of Persia.

  2. But he landed still with the desire 'to go to Arabia circuitously by way of Persia,' a course which he declared to be rendered necessary by the advanced state of the season.

  3. On reaching the main canon, the party destined for the opposite bluff separated from the other; and proceeded circuitously by a branch ravine that opened to the upper plain.

  4. It offered at length-- where the path ran circuitously among loose rocks, and it was impossible to proceed at a rapid pace I was about initiating a dialogue, when I was forestalled in my intention.

  5. Thinking as he did so that the whirlwind he would create by repeating it thrice therein should clear away all dross he instead found that the debris remained even as it dragged circuitously although less tediously in music.

  6. You may elect to go directly up-along, to the height frowned down upon by the greater height of Badbury Rings, or may go more circuitously but by more level ways, through Corfe Mullen and Sturminster Marshall.

  7. There awaited him at his house, circuitously conveyed from Cicely Monjoy, a distraught letter, in which she announced that her goings-out at night had been discovered.

  8. There was a wagon trail, if we may so call it, leading circuitously over the vast and almost treeless intervening plains.

  9. The office boy, coming circuitously forward, presented him with some cards and also with a scrap of paper upon which was scrawled a long and semicoherent word.

  10. The peasant wavered, changed his mind, was obviously terror-stricken, regained confidence and then began to advance circuitously toward the Greek lines.

  11. His interest in the Meggses was negligible; his purpose in mentioning them was to approach the Newtons circuitously and by stealth, as he always approached affairs of importance to him.

  12. If he wanted to know what time it was he would lead up to the subject by mentioning sun dials, or calendars, or lunar eclipses, and so approach circuitously and by degrees, until his victim was led to exhibit his watch.

  13. Like other late collectors, Cicero often appears ardent to possess what he was not able to command; sometimes he entreats, or circuitously negotiates, or is planning the future means to secure the acquisitions which he thirsted after.

  14. As long as their minds have any point of contact with those of their fellow-men, the electric impulse, at whatever distance it may originate, will be circuitously communicated to them.

  15. Late on Christmas Eve I crept carefully and circuitously up to the house next door and deposited our little parcel of gifts in the shadow of the porch.

  16. And from this I came back circuitously to Mr. Carville.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circuitously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.