detour in English

noun
1
a long or roundabout route taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way.
he had made a detour to a cafe
verb
1
take a long or roundabout route.
he detoured around the walls
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "detour" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "detour", or refer to the context using the word "detour" in the English Dictionary.

1. You've made a detour.

2. This detour thing is...

3. Signs directed traffic to a detour.

4. They had to detour a road-block.

5. The monument is well worth a detour.

6. We had to detour a road-block.

7. He made a detour to see it.

8. We took a detour to avoid the street repairs.

9. We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.

10. Please use Route 1 2 as a detour.

11. Snake : Yeah . I took a pretty freaky detour.

12. This secondary road offers a detour well worth making.

13. We had to make a lengthy detour through the backstreets.

14. Both were wounded during their 145 - kilometer inland detour.

15. We took a detour to avoid the town centre.

16. The traveller was forced to make an enormous detour.

17. Rock Creek/Cradleboard trail detour in place for ground nesting birds Detour in place until October 31 at Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm

18. I want to make a small detour en route.

19. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

20. It's well worth making a detour to see the village.

21. N.J.: en route to closure, a detour. by Walter O...

22. Trucks now face a five-mile detour around the bridge.

23. 10 We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.

24. OUR DETOUR INTO TOWN TODAY HAS COMPLETELY THROWN OFF OUR SCHEDULE.

25. Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.

26. 22 We used to make a detour going down Lenin Avenue.

27. A detour to disaster can come disguised as an ideal shortcut.

28. Alternatively, when I cut a link, can I make a detour?

29. Friend will take a detour off this route to a church

30. In case anyone was following me, I made an elaborate detour.

31. Take a detour and see the things you might not have seen.

32. A Bus detour is a reroute away from the Bus's regular travel path

33. I used to detour, because would like to see you at a glance.

34. We're going to take a detour and zoom in on the heart muscle now.

35. In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Đường Phố (Streets) and Sân Khấu (Stages).

36. No, it's just a little temporary detour on our way down the aisle.

37. In particular, the line was a possible detour route of military strategic importance.

38. They made a 3[Sentencedict],000 mile detour simply to prove a point.

39. I'm not entirely sure why I took a different route that day, a detour.

40. You gonna have to go back about 2 miles, take a detour through Route 17.

41. You have to go back about two miles, take a detour through Route 17.

42. We had to detour around the town centre, so it took us longer than usual.

43. She made a detour and rejoined us on the other side of the wood.

44. Synonyms for Bypath include detour, diversion, deviation, bypass, byway, deflection, departure, digression, divagation and divergence

45. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

46. Remember that adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome.

47. We were tired of the Blowdowns, so we decided to take the detour and carried on

48. The following year, therefore, the track was laid along a new route with a long detour.

49. This roadway is heavily used and serves as a major detour route when HWY 2 is closed.

50. For this case, a suitable detour route is calculated and output in dialogue with the driver.