Sentence examples for several detours from inspiring English sources

Armand's journey takes the first of several detours once he realizes that Theo, too, is dead.

Driving upriver along the southern bank, we made several detours to the river.

It was the ultimate accomplishment in a career that has taken several detours, including a brief period where it appeared Silva might quit the sport.

The fighting along the road between Pec and Pristina forced Mr. Holbrooke's convoy of white armored vehicles to make several detours.

His path to film production took several detours, including a stint as a field archaeologist and, after graduating from Purchase College in 1993 with a degree in anthropology, a job at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Stricker's resurgence on leader boards comes after several detours to Cherokee Country Club, where he spent long winter mornings and chilly afternoons trying to beat good habits into his fingers and hands.

But he would face several major detours as a child.

Along the way, though, he makes several intriguing detours: here is Marcel Duchamp holidaying at Herne Bay; here is Russell Hoban, writing his 1980 post-apocalypse novel, Riddley Walker; and here is Derek Jarman in his garden at Dungeness.

But by the time he's done with the record Steele has also indulged in several stylistic detours that lead nowhere, including some dance-pop numbers that are more irritating than engaging and a blessedly short but still insufferable spoken-word piece ("Fill Me with Apples").

The president fed them one line after another, and several times detoured from his prepared remarks, like when he gave an endorsement for the new Chevy Volt that included a promise to buy one — in five years time, of course.

The president fed them one line after another, and several times detoured from his prepared remarks, as when he gave an endorsement for the new Chevy Volt that included a promise to buy one — in five years' time, of course.