Example Sentences

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Ulrich, of Die Zeit, said, “She’s always been skeptical of Putin, but she doesn’t detest him. Detesting would be too much emotion.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014

Detesting false symmetries, Bellows wanted to show the world exactly as his embodied eye saw it.

From Washington Post

Detesting unpunctuality, the King keeps his London routine as regular and unvarying as possible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Detesting the ruling house, and indignant at the injustices it practised, they detested the priests still more—so much that they would have taken sides with Satan himself against the Pontificals.

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael

Detesting, as I did, tranquillity, I used to send my man-servant to copy the telegrams.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah