Sentence examples for detours by from inspiring English sources

He's a big guy whose appearance often prompts purse-clutching and abrupt detours by those in his orbit.

It's not yet possible to walk or bike the entire Lower Manhattan shoreline, but you'll be rewarded for a few detours by inhaling what Henry James called "the restless freedom of the Bay".

However, route diversions can actually trigger paradoxical effects: Braess [3] has shown that for certain network configurations and loads, detours by certain users can disadvantage others and adversely affect the global state of the system.

10) "Detour," by Cheryl Crane with Cliff Jahr.

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It saved me a long detour by taxi on my way home last night.

Detoured by the street fair, traffic moved slowly, the person said.

From an early age, though, Ms. Brown has exhibited and occasionally been detoured by a kind of intense restlessness.

Many officials have said the detour by the Leahy letter could explain why a State Department mail handler developed inhalational anthrax.

Detoured by Iraq Over the next year, the peace efforts languished as Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush focused on the coming invasion of Iraq.

In 2006 I visited Moyo, as well as the South Sudanese village of Kajo Kaji — it was just a quick detour by car across the border.