How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

adjective
  • These are not lyrics bogged down by convoluted thought.
    — Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
  • For my mom, the story is a bit more convoluted.
    — Jess Feldman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2025
  • That may sound convoluted — kill more moose to help moose survive.
    — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The back story on what led to the turnabout is a bit convoluted, but bear with me.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The plot was too convoluted to follow, and the finale didn’t live up to the rest of the film.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
  • These groups fill a gap in a convoluted health-care system, Bergen told me.
    — Tonya Russell, The Atlantic, 21 May 2021
  • But the process turned out to be more convoluted than expected.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • All of this said, the release plan is still pretty convoluted.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • But many others have been left out of a process described by some as convoluted and unfair.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2020
  • This might be the most convoluted bank heist ever conceived.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • In all the convoluted back-and-forth, most patients and health plans aren’t charged anything close to list price.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • That is about as tenuous and convoluted as such an attack can get.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The taxes are high, the highways around me are a convoluted mess, and the winters are a drag.
    — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • My own feelings about the surgery were too convoluted—a lust for something wordless and new.
    — Cyrus Grace Dunham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The three leads are the anchors in a very convoluted, very sweaty love triangle, which spans decades.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 May 2024
  • Of course, there are those who already find the lottery system too convoluted.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • At best, the criteria for waiving the sit-out year is convoluted.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The permitting process in the Nepal is, at best, baroque and convoluted.
    — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
  • The military pay scale is a convoluted system of charts based on rank/rate and time in service.
    — Kristina Wright, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2015
  • But it's taken a rather convoluted journey to reach us a dozen centuries later.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 June 2026
  • But, every once in a while, in a show as convoluted as Riverdale there are some gaps in the narrative.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 3 May 2019
  • Not because of a convoluted plot or half-baked characters.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • It's been a long, convoluted flight path for the water-bombing 747 to get here.
    — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2016
  • If things have gotten a little out of sorts or a bit convoluted, now is the time to make sure that everything is on the up and up.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
  • The trick is finding a profitable way to get these crops out of the lab and past convoluted regulations.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • But no matter how convoluted the catch-rule has become, there was no reason Bryant had to reach out for the goal line.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 2 June 2018
  • Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In trying to save itself, the Saw series got caught in a convoluted trap of its own making.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
  • In the real world, the process is only a bit less convoluted — albeit with some oddities unique to the league.
    — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Though the film’s plot is convoluted, its East versus West framework couldn’t be more clear.
    — Ella Donald, vanityfair.com, 28 July 2017

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