2 Verbs to Use for the Word tortuosities

Thus, if it is the width of a township from one point to another, they call the distance six miles, even though the road may follow the tortuosities of a creek or of the crest of a ridge, and be ten or twelve miles by actual measurement.

Experience soon shows us the tortuosities of imaginary rectitude, the complications of simplicity, and the asperities of smoothness.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  tortuosities