English example sentences with "detour"

If a high hill stood between A and B, it was important to decide whether the line should climb over it, pierce it with a tunnel, or make a detour to avoid it.
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We had to make a detour across a bridge down the river from here.
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He took a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.
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Tom had to take a detour.
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Let's take a detour.
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There was a detour on the road.
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We need to make a slight detour.
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We were obliged to make a detour.
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I thought I'd make a little detour.
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Take a detour to reach the goal!
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Tom's plan took an unexpected detour.
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I thought that I'd make a little detour.
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We took a detour.
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On their way to Stockholm they made a detour to Västerås.
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On the way to Stockholm, they made a detour to Västerås.
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Yanni needs to take a long detour.
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I think I will take a detour to return home.
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Smoke from forest fires becomes so dense that airline flights must detour and residents across the region suffer respiratory illnesses.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a detour to Rwanda during a European trip this week.
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Ziri took a detour.
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Ziri took a detour instead.
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Ziri took a long detour.
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Felix made a fifty minute detour to avoid the traffic jam.
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In 2009, Spirit, one of NASA's two Mars rovers, got stuck in the sand. And more recently, the other rover — Curiosity — had to take a detour to avoid the shifting sands of the red planet. This got some scientists to thinking about ways to keep our very expensive robotic probes from getting sidelined by something as inconsequential as a sand trap.
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Bruno took a detour.
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The city of Paris is worth a detour.
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Lorenzo decided to take a detour.
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Diego took a detour.
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Diego hoped that the detour wouldn't take him too much out of the way.
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Diego arrived to the detour.
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