Sentence examples for on a detour from inspiring English sources

The long road took us on a detour to Africa.

"The police sent me on a detour, and I got stuck".

My father, unsure what to do, started on a detour, a wide semicircle around the bear.

Simon Starling takes us on a detour around a collection of archival photographs of the young Francis Bacon's design studio.

He clipped another car's mirror on a detour through Bridgeport's crowded streets and had to pay $150 to replace it.

Because Çağan was still working on his grant proposal, Emrah took me on a detour to the ancient Armenian city of Ani.

Unless he was an actual soldier who's ended up on one hell of a detour back to Sandhurst.

More of a detour on a bigger journey.

Her first volume of poetry, The Work of Days received rave reviews, but her upcoming follow up, For Tamara,takes her--and us--on a detour into dark, but fascinating territory.

We recorded males' song repertoires in the field and tested these males in captivity on motor, colour association and reversal learning tasks, as well as on a detour-reaching task that measures inhibitory control.

Although sanctuary chimpanzees and bonobos outperformed their zoo counterpart on a detour-reaching task, there are other tasks in which the pattern is reversed and these same zoo apes outperformed sanctuary apes.