detour

Example Sentences

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At one point, it even made an odd international detour before returning to the United States.

From New York Times

The reopening completes a long journey for the historic structure and brings to an end a 10-mile detour for local traffic.

From BBC

Common to all of these detours was Shepard’s fraught relationship with alcohol, which haunted his entire adult life.

From Washington Post

Flights to and from Taiwan and China, Taiwan and South Korea and Taiwan and Japan were amongst those detouring around the zone on Sunday morning, according to routes tracked on Flightradar24.

From Reuters

In an attempt to spread out my eating for the day, I took a short detour to Bethel Baptist Church in Unionville.

From Washington Post