"Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in aroundabout way."
2001 December 3,Jim Rutenberg, “Rather Reports Another War”, inNew York Times[1], retrieved3 April 2014:
Mr. Rather flew to the area in aroundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curiousroundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound,roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
In North America, the use ofroundabout varies by region. In some placestraffic circle androtary are more common. A distinction is sometimes made between aroundabout, where traffic in the circle has priority, and atraffic circle orrotary, a now mostly-obsolete form of junction where traffic in the circle mustgive way to vehicles entering the circle.
