Sentence examples for slight detours from inspiring English sources

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No, the idea, for the third time in the last six autumns, was to drive the marathon route, though slight detours were unavoidable in a few places because of one-way streets and other traffic encumbrances.

The scenery – mountain-coast-mountain-coast-mountain – is such that when we made slight detours to drop off a newspaper and some turnips or pick up some bags of freshly gathered oysters, it was a delight rather than an annoyance.

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So she took a slight detour.

We took a slight detour.

After the closing, there will be what Caltrans calls "a slight detour" after the toll plaza.

Make a slight detour to woozily scroll through Twitter for five minutes, while standing in the middle of the sidewalk.

His Great Leap Forward to the Morwell Falcons came via a slight detour at the abattoir in Blayney.

After a slight detour into criticizing his Republican opponent Jeb Bush's policies on women, Trump finished by saying, "I have a great respect for women.

The reader then takes a slight detour in order to be brought up to speed on Victorian racism and the origins of experimental psychology in Germany.

Finally, to relax the knots of tension that all this emoting may induce, drop by the ART COMPLEX MUSEUM in Duxbury, a slight detour en route to Cape Cod.

Ferries to and from Ellis Island had to make a slight detour, but DiMatteo said passengers during qualifying races got a bonus treat of being able to watch the planes up close.

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