Definition: 1. A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island. 2. Large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride on. 3. Marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct. 4. Deviating from a straight course.
Use 'roundabout' in a sentence:
1. He told us, in a very roundabout way, that he was thinking of leaving.
2. Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty ．
3. Just past the Barlby roundabout there's temporary traffic lights.
4. Setting conditions of roundabout under different signal control methods.
5. The car stalled at the roundabout.
6. Freedom of speech is being realized in a roundabout way.
7. The capacity and the levels of service of roundabout are studied.
8. He always asks me favors in a roundabout way.
9. A new roundabout was built to improve the traffic circulation.
10. What a roundabout way of doing things!
11. History moves in zigzags and by roundabout ways.
12. A roundabout road ( especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).
13. She made a suggestion in a very roundabout way.
14. Last night I got lost, and took a very roundabout way.
15. The roundabout there on Old Street is now called "Silicon Roundabout."
16. He left today on a roundabout route for Jordan and is also due soon in Egypt.
17. The route was getting a little too roundabout for me.
18. Scott Ellis directs, for Roundabout Theatre Company ． Previews begin Feb ． 12 ．（ American Airlines Theatre, 227 W ． 42nd St ． 212-719-1300 ．）
19. Application of Roundabout Curve Parallel Lines in Construction of Railway Continuous Girder Bridge.
20. One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening.
21. Optimization of Control Method for Roundabout at Fixed Cycle.
22. I got into fashion in a roundabout way.
23. You probably thought I also got more than I expected despite the roundabout way.
24. The Civil War gave us Tabasco in a much more roundabout way.
25. Owing to lack of experience we took a roundabout course in our work.
26. Study of the Delay Theory Model for Low Channeling Roundabouts.
27. Study on Impact of Capacity Under Different Traffic Rules of Large Roundabouts.
28. If you go that way, you'll be taking a roundabout and much longer route.
29. There was a bit of a roundabout way of saying that, it's because what really makes me happy is freedom.
30. His cap was a dainty thing, his close-buttoned blue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons.
31. I still want to tell this story, and he does it in a kind of roundabout way.
32. We drove home by a roundabout route.
33. Japan, too, has been arming itself in a roundabout way.
34. Research on Control Method Selection and Time Space Design of Roundabout in City Roads.
35. I'm happy to say, however, that the council have agreed to begin work over the next few months to put in a new roundabout.
36. The kids were pushing the roundabout at a giddy speed.
37. We're at this roundabout in the middle of Juba.
38. The roundabout production is the biggest characteristic of labor division.
39. He circuited a roundabout three times.
40. Electrical energy comes from the sun in a roundabout way;
41. "It ends up being a roundabout way to tax people," Hauter says.
42. Today, the nearby roundabout and Tube station is called Piccadilly Circus.
43. Optimal Design Method for Roundabout of Medium and Small City.
44. Indeed, bail-outs may be a roundabout means to get the stability Germany craves.
45. We made a bit of a fuss in a roundabout way.
46. We made a little fuss in a roundabout way.
47. At the roundabout, take the second exit.
48. Leave the roundabout at the second exit.
49. At the roundabout take the third exit.
50. The hound found a profound book on the roundabout.
51. It was a difficult and roundabout trip.
52. The turn is about two kilometres before the roundabout.
53. If you earn more, you pay more in tax, so it's all swings and roundabouts.
