detour

There is a brief detour about frozen salmon.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Lorries over 7.5 tonnes have had to take a detour since the upgrade work was identified, with checks undertaken and traffic lights installed on the bridge.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Then they traveled to Philadelphia for a three-game set, took a detour to Washington to visit the White House before returning to New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

The researchers describe vertebrate eyes as the product of an unusual evolutionary detour.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

We had asked permission for this brief detour to El Gallo on our way to Puerto Plata today.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Flyovers speed traffic while forcing pedestrians into hazardous detours below.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

One of the night’s longest detours centered on Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Speaking to Beijing News, a resident who lives about 1km away from the factory said villagers now have to take detours after stones were blasted onto the road.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

Under his watch, he wrote, “no detours or even bathroom breaks are allowed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Some sections were gone altogether, and there were interminable, long detours and many changes of train.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

By plans laid ahead of time, most caravan vehicles detoured around the party while select caravan cars followed a police escort through the action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

He then detoured to law school at Georgetown and briefly became a First Amendment lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Several main roads in and around downtown, as well as some bus routes, have been closed or detoured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

When she was about 16, she detoured into what she called her “boy era,” pulling back from rigorous year-round training to date and go to football games like other students.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

I turned and headed back—past the foundry, past Grandpa’s house, past the Cold Sassy tree and the depot, past our house, which I detoured around, and on toward the hotel and the block of stores.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

She glanced at him once with what looked like a hint of contemptuousness and ended without detouring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Yet, it’s disappointment that Perkins serves up most frequently in “The Monkey,” detouring from every wide-open chance to showcase depth and humanity in favor of juvenile humor and gross-out splatter gags.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

I figured out that they were detouring traffic off exit ramps prior to the bridge on each side.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

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 ● Apr. 16, 2023

Frightened jockeys take what Luther called “the married man’s route,” timidly detouring around the outside of the pack.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand