How To Use Detour In A Sentence

The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
He charged his work for the mileage he notched up on just the detour home. Times, Sunday Times
Stop there for a cream tea or in spring make a short detour to see the bluebells. Times, Sunday Times
I also had the great joy of meeting up with a friend of mine from the MPhil who now lives out there, in Long Beach to be precise - he took me out there, via a fun detour down Rodeo Drive so I can say that I've seen it! Archive 2009-11-01
Annmarie, the cake looks scrump and I like your detour with cherries. The Daring Bakers: Perfect Party Cake

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Jason detoured from his route to the bar and opened the door.
This meant that you'd be driving along, and suddenly have to take a detour, sometimes of up to 15 kilometres.
It can even work out quick detours around traffic jams and roadworks, if you encounter any, Evesham said.
Sometimes the need to change course or make a detour is more subtle. Christianity Today
Suddenly, he darts off on a detour and we had to run for another 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
It is amusing to see that pedestrians would rather make a long detour to avoid the clutter than straighten up the mess.
Walking on will only disturb them again and again, and having no wish to chivvy them the length of the beach we detour along the track through the dunes, regaining the sands with the gulls behind us and miles of beach ahead. Country diary: South Uist
But can she avoid the detour she meant to miss, stopping near their old California house? Times, Sunday Times
You could quite easily miss the pub but a quick detour down Main Street and there it is.
Suppose a ladder is propped up against a wall, and a man walking along next to the wall makes a detour around the ladder. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
Which means I have to take a detour from my trip to the bathroom, to go the supply closet upstairs and locate more toilet paper or paper towels or whatever else is needed.
All this means construction vehicles, traffic detours and arm-waving, red-stick people abound.
Why not take a detour to a garden in search of an ephemeral beauty or two? Times, Sunday Times
Take a detour and see the things you might not have seen.
It was, instead, a futile and costly detour in making the transition from a feudalistic system to a market economy.
Worth making an effort but not a long detour. Sarah Brown's Vegetarian London
When you reach a roadblock, you have three choices: Retreat, ram stubbornly into the barrier, or take a detour and continue forward.
I watched cabin cruisers arc through the large triangular confluence, then, my detour done, wandered back for the walk proper.
HE recovered the shoebrush from under the window of Tabby, the young assistant house-master, and tucking it into his pocket, skirted the outer limits of the school, dodged behind a fence, and creeping on all-fours, made a wide detour via the pond and rejoined the high road to Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
As the forty-niners crossed the Rockies, one-third of them, after reaching Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming, detoured from the main trail through southern Idaho and across northern Nevada.
A five-mile section of the upland route between Llanbrynmair and Llangadfan has not yet been completed, so walkers are sent on tedious road detours.
Rather than slug it out in a frontal attack, wisdom suggests a detour. Christianity Today
That's the kind of newspeak that presents itself as journalism while detouring around truth.
The Indian American dream is paved with crooked paths, detours, and not infrequent derailment.
Suddenly, he darts off on a detour and we had to run for another 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
On the way to Lake Hood, take a detour to Earthquake Park.
They made a 3,000 mile detour simply to prove a point.
From the stories told by Cherie's close friends, mother, sister, and shadchan, I realized that her road towards matrimony had been pockmarked by sudden detours, geographic dislocations, and emotional turbulence.
They detoured around the traffic jam by heading south.
Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection .... GreenCine Daily
To get to this, we will take a quick detour through a Hegelian conception of language.
And when he looked up and out he was startled to see a people so numerous on the seashore that he thought for a moment they were nkrane, the black ants he had detoured a hundred strides before.
For young people who need to hone their social skills, IM can be more a detour than a help.
Sometimes the need to change course or make a detour is more subtle. Christianity Today
Many cyclists choose to dismount and walk, cycle along the pavement or make a long detour up and down the city's notorious hills. Times, Sunday Times
But that path detours the real problems of relationships today and their official recognition.
But can she avoid the detour she meant to miss, stopping near their old California house? Times, Sunday Times
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Stop there for a cream tea or in spring make a short detour to see the bluebells. Times, Sunday Times
The book is a melange of logical exposition, poetic irruptions, and travel on a road with many detours and roadside attractions.
It was felt the route could become deeply rutted by uncontrolled vehicular use, encouraging drivers to detour off the route onto the fells.
This is going to mean a long detour, though. Times, Sunday Times
Puns, outlandish narrative detours and other foolery are wildly evident in Milligan's scripts.
during the construction we had to take a detour
Outbound lanes will be closed and drivers diverted to detours for another week.
On the trip from London he took an eight-mile unscheduled detour.
If it was a minor technical fault, you wouldn't expect him to take a long detour over the sea. The Sun
It is not a hedge around heartbreak, a quick fix for pain, or a detour through grief.
I used to detour, because would like to see you at a glance.
For a large power like Russia, which has always more or less rejected NATO and observed the expansion of the EU with suspicion, taking a slight detour through the Baltic States was the perfect way to reach into the heart of Brussels with a reasonably low level of risk. Signs of the Times
Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
In Slovenia I made a detour to Lake Bohinj, where Agatha and second husband Max had once tried to holiday incognito, only to be run to ground by enthusiastic Slovene journalists.
He was happy to make a detour for her convenience.
On this detour we saw a whole village burning. Broken Lives
For many motorists, daily back-ups between the Fort Duquesne and West End bridges on the detour for outbound traffic were the worst part of the construction.
In such a situation, novels are read for the sheer delight of the plot twists, which often reflect the detours of our own destiny in this hustle-bustle world.
A detour left here takes you back to the foreshore, in front of Drum Sands.
On this detour we saw a whole village burning. Broken Lives
Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
I used to detour, because would like to see you at a glance.
Just as he was about to make what, in retrospect, can be identified as his breakthrough, he detoured into a series of conceptual works involving photocopiers and fax machines.
It is amusing to see that pedestrians would rather make a long detour to avoid the clutter than straighten up the mess.
Take a detour and see the things you might not have seen.
We detoured around two possible car bombs that had been cordoned off while Iraqis cautiously approached.
Filled with a bouquet, a creamware pitcher injects life and warmth without detouring off the clean, white path.
This detour only serves to underscore Leigh's message at the expense of the film's continuity and flow - which is strictly rigid to begin with.
Many cyclists choose to dismount and walk, cycle along the pavement or make a long detour up and down the city's notorious hills. Times, Sunday Times
After hearing somewhat of a ruckus in the lecture hall, Katt took a detour and poked her head in to investigate.
Worth making an effort but not a long detour. Sarah Brown's Vegetarian London
It was well worth the detour, as they have a very nice museum with impressive mounted skeletons of an entelodont, a towering chalicothere, and some smaller denizens of the Miocene savannah.
As my husband and I try to leave, a Burroughs dad stops us to insist that we detour past the lunchroom, where volunteers have set out cookies and Dunn Bros coffee.
One of the book's more intriguing detours is its passage on nineteenth-century novels: Fielding, Thackeray, Dickens. The Status-tician
It was felt the route could become deeply rutted by uncontrolled vehicular use, encouraging drivers to detour off the route onto the fells.
Kharaharapriya was thereafter taken up for a condensed elaboration that made a quick detour of the scale and was succeeded by "Senthil Andavan" in rupaka tala, augmented with a beautifully contoured neraval and fluent kalpana swaras. The Hindu - Front Page
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse, and often detours or ends there.
From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad. The Black Bag
We believe that we are still on that road map, although clearly there have been a few detours and there's been some bumpiness along the way.
They detoured around the traffic jam by heading south.
Many technical careers take a detour into management.
I also did some detours through the organ world, but piano remained the most important instrument for me.
Measure and calculate the detour index for the route between Plymouth and Exeter.
He did not take the direct route to his home, but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.
Many cyclists choose to dismount and walk, cycle along the pavement or make a long detour up and down the city's notorious hills. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately for President Obama, he had a momentary lapse, detoured from the teleprompter and showed the American people how he truly feels. sean White House mocks coverage of 'Beer Summit'
The short detour to a plank bridge had itself become a quagmire, and he edged his way along from tussock to tussock. A DEATH IN TIME
Traversing wooded areas with dense tree cover or deadfall required numerous minor detours.
Today as we were driving back from Arnprior, Ontario after a busy Thanksgiving weekend, K suggested we take a detour through Carp to see this building pictured above.
In addition, its anticipated director, Msgr Perl is certainly the man in Rome who best knows the traditionalist world, its ways, its outlines or its detours. Rumor Watch: Ecclesia Dei to Become Part of CDW?
Parents accompany the pupils over the bridge to avoid a 30-minute detour on the school run. The Sun
Anyway, coming back I detoured through residential areas where the traffic was not so bad.
Suppose a ladder is propped up against a wall, and a man walking along next to the wall makes a detour around the ladder. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
A coronary bypass provides a detour for blood on its way to the heart.
For me, that detour came more than 20 years ago - and the date, Jan. 5, 1982, is imprinted permanently in my mind.
This is going to mean a long detour, though. Times, Sunday Times
If it's not witches (a la "True Blood's" detour last summer into the "maenad" orgy-mama storyline; boy, did she get tiresome), then it's werewolves. Season 3 of 'True Blood' adds a power struggle and many new characters
During the resultant three-hour detour, we encountered sundry additional discouragements.
When we travel further along the road to Foca, and take a detour into the Treskavica mountains, it is easier to see what she means.
On the other hand, you can also affect where the traffic detours through the house via where you store popular items.
I think it's a stretch to identify hostility to bilingualism as "nativism" - it's rooted in sound public policy concerns, and in any event, if you'll forgive a detour into the personal, I'm opposed to bilingualism, and it would be awkward for you to be stuck in the position of suggesting an immigrant is a nativist. Fred's exit...
The incident illustrated on the first page is where the riflemen are advancing their skirmishers through the undergrowth towards the Confederate gum, while other Federal regiments are making a flanking movement by a detour on each side to clear the pine woods. Illustrations of the Civil War in America
The Egyptian cavalry under Colonel Broadwood and the camelry under Major Tudway, making a wide détour, got close to the dervish left, and engaged the enemy occasionally with rifles and Maxims. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
Many cyclists choose to dismount and walk, cycle along the pavement or make a long detour up and down the city's notorious hills. Times, Sunday Times
You go to a shopping mall and have to keep detouring around people who stop dead in the middle of the aisle when something catches their interest.
Northbound buses start their trips at Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, then proceed: northward along Keele Street; and then westward along Steeles Avenue West to Founders Road, resuming their regular route ** westward along Steeles., from 9: 45 a.m. until 12: 15 p.m., eastbound buses operate along their regular route to Ian Macdonald Boulevard and The Chimneystack Road, then detour: eastward along The Chimneystack; southward along Keele Street; eastward along Canartic Drive; and then northward* along Petrolia Road to Steeles Avenue West, resuming their regular route ** eastward along Steeles. Transit Toronto - Weblog
The bus detoured off the arterial road to visit a huge new superstore, picking up a doddery old man who shuffled slowly to the nearest seat.
A didactic air creeps into the proceedings as the two men pick at the bones of friendship and trust, making an unexpected detour into the morality of modern marketing techniques.
We took a detour to avoid the town centre.
Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.
They are quite an attraction, lots of people come to have, like relatives who are visiting family in the area, take a detour to come and have a look.
He finally got the sack from Dublin Bus when he made one detour too many and was arrested in a Garda surveillance operation on the home of his supplier.
There's so much more power in decreeing that the awful detours you may have endured served their purpose of prodding you into the place you now reside, without giving energy to them. Meryl Davids Landau: This Holiday, Give Thanks for What's Coming, Not Just What's Already Here
In case anyone was following me, I made an elaborate detour.
Edgar Ulmer's reputation rests largely on a series of no-budget, claustrophobic noirs and thrillers like Strange Illusion, Bluebeard, and of course Detour.
We had to make a detour round the floods.
They're kind of detours on the matrimonial highway that in the end, are probably going to mean nothing. CNN Transcript May 7, 2005
Most editorial writers seem determined to detour around obvious parallels with apartheid-era South Africa.
P.S. Is everybody enjoying the detour into securities law?
On the way to the station we take a detour to visit the flat that Joe Orton lived in for seven years prior to his death.
The tree lay supine across the street and vehicles had to take a detour for over three hours, which time it took the Corporation employees to axe the tree into transportable portions.
The ship conducted a counterclockwise circumnavigation of mainland Australia, with a slight detour to Christmas Island.
Often losing sight of its prey, Portia spends twenty minutes detouring through the foliage to reach the optimal vantage point.
To justify such an approach it is necessary to take a theoretical detour.
After his victory, Alexander rolled through Asia Minor, detouring to Gordium to meet up with his general Parmenio.
On the way home, Alexander made a detour through the mountains of central Greece to the sacred site of Delphi beneath Mount Parnassus. Alexander the Great
There are a couple of nosheries around Fun Town that seem to take pride in serving dishes that look like the waiter or waitress took a detour through a rainforest before reaching your table, such is the abundance of foliage on the plate.
Traffic and the general public are greatly inconvenienced by delays and detours severely impacting on road users in the area.
The lengthy performance numbers seem almost spliced in from another movie, and the narrative flow gets lost every time the film detours into a concert hall.
Suppose a ladder is propped up against a wall, and a man walking along next to the wall makes a detour around the ladder. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
He will detour through the town where my aunt is buried.
He did not take the direct route to his home, but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
The DRLPS has received a matching fund grant to rehabilitate the DeTour Reef Light's original diaphone foghorn system, to its 1931 configuration. Sault Ste. Marie Evening News Homepage RSS
Whatever you do, don't detour to answer every misplaced question as this disturbs continuity, decreases clarity and disorganizes an otherwise structured explanation.
Worth making an effort but not a long detour. Sarah Brown's Vegetarian London
And yet when you are first starting out as an entrepreneur, a detour is awfully hard to resist.
Quelques uns les Scavent, les autres ce contenteront de Scavoir que des le tems que jeu l'honneur de faire quelque Sejour chez feu le Duc d'Albemarlea Londre qui fust alors establis du Roy Charle II. vice Roy de Jamaique, par la Relation qu'on me fist de la beauté, bonté, et richesses de L'Amerique Angloise, J'en concluse une Ideé si advantageuse, que Sur les fortes invitations de ce Seigneur je l'aurois Suivis en ce Voyage avec empressement, si je n'eusse esté detourné par les fortes remonstrances de mes parents qui voulloient que je m'etablisse dans ma Patrie, et nonobstant touttes les douceurs que j'y pouvois avoir, il me resta pourtant toujours quelque amorce et quelque chose d'attirant pour les pays Susdits. Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
It may not be one that's germane to the story but it will get the subject talking freely - and that's a detour well worth taking.
Now you need to make an important detour. Collins Traveller-Tuscany and Florence
Scott, as I've suggested, follows the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers while detouring through Burke's Reflections.
MONTPELIER - A northbound Interstate on-ramp in Montpelier will be closed for about a month starting this Monday, which will mean a detour and delays for northbound drivers, the Vermont TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
I was a bit tired at this point, so it was good to take a detour into Buckden and pause for cups of sweet tea, coffee cake and jam scone at the excellent West Winds Cottage Tea Room.
‘The builders had to make a detour as trolls live here,’ John tells us straight-faced, gesturing at huge rocks.
He charged his work for the mileage he notched up on just the detour home. Times, Sunday Times
Now you need to make an important detour. Collins Traveller-Tuscany and Florence
But when I took the no. 7 bus to work in the morning, it took a detour around the flooded roads (it must have been pretty bad).
From Rotterdam to Delft, all the way by the canal, allowing for the détour via Schiedam, is less than twenty kilometres, and the journey is short for any sort of an automobile that will go beyond a snail's pace. The Automobilist Abroad
So I plodded back to the car, purchasing a pack of sandwiches on the way, and headed homewards, taking a wide detour in the direction of Boston and then turning off to join my familiar country roads.
Once approved, all requests are passed along to Lucien Lespérance in the circulation department, whose job is to work out all the traffic detours.
A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said none of the passengers on the bus was hurt, but many were unsettled at the sudden unscheduled detour.
And that Joe and Ratso rise above the material, taking on a reality of their own while the screenplay detours into the fashionable New York demimonde. Favorite Film Friday: Midnight Cowboy « A Progressive on the Prairie
I see her 'detours' as you put it as character development. REVIEW: Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder
With a high degree of ongoing roadworks on the province's roads and resultant narrowing of roads or gravel detours, conditions become even more treacherous.
Such detours were appropriate for the early postcollege career years. One Flight Up
And the police...' Karen was approaching by then, and detoured straight to the wall-mounted phone. NIGHT SISTERS
Probably my favorite entry of the year came on December 12, when Brad found a series of highly logical links to connect actress Mayim Bialik to Bruce Springsteen's well-known live version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," which was recorded on the day Ms. Bialik was born, thanks to a detour through actor/producer Sheldon Leonard. Eric Williams: Historical Mashups: Visuals From a Year of "Triviazoids"
All train/tubeworks tend to happen on weekends so my supposedly direct train detoured to a coach and back onto a train between Witham and Ipswitch. Its the journey, not the destination
In the life long journey with many detours, path, dangerous road, dark road, only the strong-willed and never stop the people, will have hopes of reaching the victory away.
The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
While on their way to sunny Hollywood, California, the Carters take a detour to visit an old abandoned silver mine.
Then a blizzard closed in forcing the men to make a 15-mile detour around the water in a complete white-out.
On the way to the tomato patch they made a detour to Louis's workshop to collect some baskets.
Unfortunately, the screenplay offers no fingerholds - characters are cardboard cut-outs, the plot detours wildly from logic.
Occasionally on these walks I would encounter something that was not comfortable, and frequently would have to detour certain areas because of it.
In order to arrive at that determination, though, we must first take a detour through the philosophical puzzle know as Newcomb's Paradox.
He charged his work for the mileage he notched up on just the detour home. Times, Sunday Times
But a new paradigm is taking over, one that looks less like a ladder and more like a "lattice" -- a shape that allows for stepping off and stepping back on, caretaking for children and aging parents, working non-traditional hours, taking detours into various fields, developing various skills etc. Women in Science Link Roundup: January 12 Edition
A temporary detour has been constructed while the main road is being rebuilt and resurfaced.
This route is a longer detour than the underpass now being built at Top Lane, but would likely not be a major inconvenience for car users.
Some spectators were dancing right in front of the bandstand and every so often, a runner would detour out of the lane to join them in a few steps.
Stop there for a cream tea or in spring make a short detour to see the bluebells. Times, Sunday Times
In the life long journey with many detours, path, dangerous road, dark road, only the strong-willed and never stop the people, will have hopes of reaching the victory away.
Without abandoning their own genres - mostly rock, but also soul, country and western, and Latin - they have detoured into Sinatra country as a way of paying musical tribute.
In the life long journey with many detours, path, dangerous road, dark road, only the strong-willed and never stop the people, will have hopes of reaching the victory away.
I used to detour, because would like to see you at a glance.
He also produced the iced nougat, which alone would merit a major detour on any holiday to France.
Since 1961, seven deputies have moved up, starting with Walt W. Rostow (after a detour to State) for Lyndon Johnson; Brent Scowcroft for Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush; and Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter and Colin Powell for Ronald Reagan - who cycled through six national security advisers in eight years. Is national security deputy Donilon moving up?
It is worth making a short detour to the shore where, after a tricky clamber, you can explore natural arches.
Instead they would send them on "detours" around the venue never letting anyone park causing a lot of people to spend hours sitting in gridlock in their cars going around and around the venue while the show played. Radiohead: Flooding Forces Fans To Circle Parking Lot For 3 Hours - The Consumerist
The showpiece is a lengthy interpretation of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," with a brief detour into George Gershwin's "Summertime. News - chicagotribune.com
These detours add depth to the narrative, but the sheer volume of digressive material becomes a distraction, and Ms. Stanton struggles to identify a clear thematic, intellectual or narrative arc in Mr. Avery's activities. A Never-Ending Treasure Hunt
A few miles out of town, she took a detour to a small house where a silversmith lived. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
The view, looking across the tide-churned narrows of Strangford Lough to Portaferry's twin village, Strangford, would be worth the detour by itself.
On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite.
Just as he was about to make what, in retrospect, can be identified as his breakthrough, he detoured into a series of conceptual works involving photocopiers and fax machines.
And anyway, by the late ’70s, Mr. Hockney had detoured in a half-dozen directions: theater sets and costume design, where the artist showed himself to be a virtuoso; photography, where he did not; and farragoes into Cubist collage, Chinese philosophy and “fax” drawings, as well as the artist’s crazily overpublicized theory that from the Renaissance onward, artists used optical devices to paint in perfect one-point perspective. The Unconfounding Delight of David Hockney
We're detouring from the main trekking route to visit Babu's parents - Lhakpa is now 63, and Babu's mother, Pasi, is 61.
So it's been a road with various curves and detours, not a straight, linear march towards a predetermined goal.
If it was a minor technical fault, you wouldn't expect him to take a long detour over the sea. The Sun
And yet when you are first starting out as an entrepreneur, a detour is awfully hard to resist.
And many knocks, bumps and detours later here I ride in Honduras, central America.
If it was a minor technical fault, you wouldn't expect him to take a long detour over the sea. The Sun
The sociologist Michael Mann took a detour from his epic study of power in human history.
Despite many bridges, viaducts, embankments, cuttings and tunnels the lines twist and turn in detours around the hills.
I used to detour, because would like to see you at a glance.

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