Sentence examples for as a detour from inspiring English sources

Drivers had been using the ramp as a detour around the accident scene.

They expect what seems somewhat obvious — that Favre came here as a detour on his way to Minnesota, the team he wanted to play for all along.

Drivers on Interstate 88, the main artery between Albany and Binghamton, have been forced to use local roads as a detour.

It will serve as a detour until next year when Prine expects to release his first collection of original songs in 12 years.

In its place will be a temporary bridge serving as a detour around the old piece, which will be demolished to make way for a new seismically correct piece.

He said reopening the expressway would be a huge job involving clearing the tanker wreckage, cleaning up the gasoline spill and shoring up the damaged portions of the bridge, which is to be used eventually as a detour during a construction project on Roosevelt Avenue.

Thai Gardens has so much going for it -- fresh food, low prices, simple but agreeable surroundings and genial stewardship -- that for fans of Thai food, it deserves to be starred, in the parlance of travel guides, as "worth a detour".

Take a detour as far as the Porte des Jacobins (10), one of the original city gates; remains of the old city walls are clearly visible to one side.

This summer, he drove across the United States with his girlfriend and two dogs: "The plan was to stick as much to the old Route 66 as possible," with a detour to Graceland.

The desserts I tried, a miniature lime tart with a toasted meringue piped on in loops and especially a "cube" cake flavored with pine, vanilla and kaffir lime are worth a detour as well.

Note, however, that while an abrupt change in color may provide local evidence for the segregation of image regions, these regions may nevertheless be linked through a detour, as is illustrated for the yellow and green circles in the left panel of Fig.  10c.