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detour sentence examples

  • Aside on my way here today i took a detour by baker street to pay homage to sherlock holmes.
  • Detour into russian history and the revolutionary democratic approach of the bolsheviks.
  • Little warden's control tower a slight detour led us to the site of little walden, near saffron walden.
  • Detour on the way to the shops.
  • Detour round them.
  • Detour off the main route.
  • Detour from the routes of walks 24 pumlumon fawr & 25 plynlimon & three sources.
  • Any closure would result in a 20 mile detour for a minimum four weeks.
  • You may like to make a short detour to look around the village.
  • After making an unplanned detour of my own i was happy to get to the finish with just a sore foot.
  • Detours east on the road to cross under the motorway and skirt an industrial area.
  • St martin's church, is but a two minute detour up the hill.
  • Ferry ferries are used across rivers and estuaries, usually where there were no bridges, to avoid considerable detours.
  • Had the river been in spate, they would have had to make a lengthy detour.
  • This involved a detour into north wales to return some kit that rob had left on the boat.
  • You may like to make a short detour to look around the village.
  • We managed to take a wrong turning which meant an unnecessary detour, with every light seeming to work against us.
  • As we retreat back into space we make a brief detour to view triton, neptune's largest moon.
  • To the south would require a long detour through downham market.
  • The week started with an unexpected detour to tenerife.

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