I have followed a rather roundabout path to becoming your captain.

"Not to mention the roundabout path we took to get here," the captain said.

The roundabout path enables fielders to keep the ball's image rising in a straight line.

Racers were later sent on a longer, roundabout path to the next checkpoint.

And he appreciates the value of complex, ambiguous data in forging roundabout paths to new discoveries.

Neither said a word as they took a more roundabout path back to the house.

The rest of his division, which had taken a roundabout path through Mława soon arrived.

Dr. Plotkin had followed a roundabout path to the rain forest.

We returned to the inn by a roundabout path, avoiding the better traveled roads of the village.

The pair flashed coordinating messages, and they set off on a roundabout path up the mountainside.