Sentence examples for detour from inspiring English sources

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detour

noun

A diversion or deviation from one's original route.

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Undaunted, however, we decided to round off three weeks in the southern cone with a detour through western Uruguay.

So under the new proposals, the MP for "Mersey Bank" will need to take a 12-mile detour through a different constituency and across the Mersey to reach both areas he or she represents.

But one of my favourite things about the Tour de France's detour into God's Own County is that all of the categorised climbs have been given a gallic twist.

Her aubergines aux herbes alone is worth the detour.

Our next objective was Crinkle Crags but we first made an energetic detour via Cold Pike.

Nothing, however, excuses Wright using the phrase "my anus" when the hand cream-as-face cream chat takes a detour into haemorrhoid cream territory.

Watch out for the concerns expressed about the safe detour around the ruthless Elephant and Castle roundabout and the likelihood of cars, vans and buses intruding on the blue strip.

When I arrived in London, I took a long detour, outside in the cold, just so I could vape a bit before getting on the tube.

To say a visit it is worth a detour is an understatement.

The pope was taken on a detour to the town of Quneitra, flattened by the Israelis in their partial withdrawal from the Golan Heights, and called upon to bless the president's vision of a Christian-Islamic alliance to vanquish the common threat of colonising Jews.Damascus's Jewish quarter lies off the Street Called Straight but was left unvisited by the popemobile.

Protests by unhappy villagers are going to necessitate a muddy and pothole-ridden detour.

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