The sheriff was uneasy about something, and he was leading up to it in a roundabout fashion.

If only she could somehow become David, to control him directly instead of in this maddening, roundabout fashion!

In a roundabout fashion, over protests that he is only a man of business, the bank clerk reveals Lucie's past.

"One might question the need for this step," Polaris objected in the roundabout fashion of his kind.

This time Vazul made answer, but in a roundabout fashion.

Govorov took the leap, the one he'd been moving toward, if in a roundabout fashion, since this little lecture had begun.

If you're trying to get to her in a roundabout fashion, you'd better fill me in.

She had stopped coming by his quarters-even (in a roundabout fashion) returned the key he had given her.

Yes he did, in a roundabout fashion I would rather not discuss.

You have to admit they've done pretty well in a roundabout fashion to supply what we need.