Advertisement
Advertisement
detour
noun as in indirect course
Example Sentences
Then, after a 20-year detour into essays - that split public opinion and earned her both reverence and vilification - and a second novel, Roy has returned with her first memoir.
When Last Chance Grade is closed, the only alternative — aside from steep, unpaved logging roads — is a 449-mile, eight-hour detour circling through Redding and southern Oregon.
Later, a cyclone forced the brothers to abandon a plan to land in Brisbane and they were forced to take a detour around the remote New Caledonia archipelago to avoid the storm.
Yet at 16, Simons' career trajectory took a huge detour.
Birmingham's journey to the top flight, if and when they reach it, would have started with a detour through League One.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse