Sentence examples for detests being from inspiring English sources

And how will Aung San Suu Kyi, who has repeatedly said she detests being described as a saint or an icon, cope with the adulation she will receive this week?

It detests being destabilized.

What I think my colleague detests is the very subtlety of the sound, which he feels becomes decorative and pretty, whereas, to me, it's as if a new light glows from the very heart of the piece.

Some shoppers love them, but others detest being lectured by a mis-functioning machine.

Daniels, who was speaking to Entertainment Weekly, said he detested being replaced by a CGI version of C-3PO for action scenes in the prequels.

Defence secretaries are despised by the armed forces for never having fought, doctors sneer at health secretaries, and teachers detest being instructed by education secretaries.

Kneeland wrote that Burns, with "a smile which quickly developed into a constantly recurrent and particularly devilish grin," told him, "I shall tell you quite frankly that I detest being asked questions".

"The socialites today detest being called socialites and prefer being known as people who work," said David Patrick Columbia, the editor in chief of Quest, a magazine about the rich at home and on the black-tie circuit.

(And yes, as much as they detested being lumped together with Peterson, the Can Kicks Back folks really coveted his ducats).

Most birds detest being stroked.

What he really detested was the style.