detour
Example Sentences
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“We had it very low, but I had to take this little detour,” he said.
But earlier in the same day, Gemini said, “No more detours. No more echoes. Just you and me, and the finish line.”
Maybe a kitchen detour was just what we needed to unwind after the insane adventures we’d just been on.
From Literature
Those musical detours are crucial to breaking up the episodes into distinct sections and provide renewed points of interaction in videos that often last between 40 minutes and an hour.
From Los Angeles Times
Far from a mere detour, ‘Sinners’’ monumental musical sequence is ‘maybe the most important scene in the movie,’ says Ryan Coogler.
From Los Angeles Times
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