How to Use convoluted in a Sentence

convoluted

adjective
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  • The Metroid series has a decades-long, convoluted history with a lot of gaps in between.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • Setting up and administering the convoluted tax plan would not be free.
    — oregonlive, 17 June 2021
  • Their fake streaming service is just one part of a convoluted, seven-step process to deliver their malicious payload.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 29 May 2021
  • Like a desert mirage, the task of assessing the rarity of intelligent life in the universe seems to become more convoluted with each passing year.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • His role in the situation is as hazily complicated as much of the rest of the case's convoluted history, however.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 26 June 2021
  • On the worst Migos songs, that complexity feels convoluted and full of meaningless digressions.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
  • Explaining the convoluted document would require nothing less than a long recitation of Catholic history.
    — Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The Doctor, after all, is a rogue who answers to no one but the demands of conscience, often undertaking risky, convoluted plans to achieve personal goals.
    — Nola Pfau, Vulture, 16 June 2021
  • The Walmart seller shares the tracking code with the customer, who receives the product and is none the wiser of the convoluted operation taking place behind the scenes.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Sure, the league has complicated and convoluted roster rules, but Inter Miami really botched this.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
  • And the convoluted process means that the terms budget, ...
    — Ron Estes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The taxes are high, the highways around me are a convoluted mess, and the winters are a drag.
    — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • 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 book, which gets convoluted, isn’t the sole problem.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • How does any of this fit into the convoluted timeline of the last 19 Zelda games?
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The three leads are the anchors in a very convoluted, very sweaty love triangle, which spans decades.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 May 2024
  • None of Scorsese’s Mafia movies were as convoluted as this.
    — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But the process turned out to be more convoluted than expected.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • If the writers try to find a way to twist the prophecy's meaning and thus shock the audience, the results can be clever or just convoluted.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 1 July 2024
  • And in the second act, the twists in the plot become convoluted and its denouement doesn’t entirely make sense to me.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The convoluted process required to tease a first-rate picture out of an AI is quickly emerging as a fine-art skill.
    — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Graves took the stand during the trial and offered a convoluted defense.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The saga of Moss’s involvement in Depp and Heard’s ever tawdry trial is a bit convoluted.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 25 May 2022
  • This has to be the most convoluted and cockamamie apology on the books for Stalin’s mass murder.
    — Algis Valiunas, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The more convoluted the machinations, the better the payoff.
    — Vulture, 24 July 2023
  • The few highlights are undone by a convoluted mythology, plenty of clichés and a lack of scares.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • PBMs have for years operated in the shadows of the convoluted US.
    — Ted Okon, STAT, 8 July 2022
  • Keep that core reason in mind, and don’t take them down a convoluted, black hole of information.
    — Josh Perlstein, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The last thing a TV show as convoluted and morally perplexing as this one needs is a Me Too narrative.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Angie said through convoluted gasps brought on by racing Adderall thoughts that Saint died at his desk so Jean could get his job.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022

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