English example sentences with "detours"

In other words, the merits, etc. of making detours are the consideration of the attitudes of the landowners whose property the line would cross, the convenience of other towns and villages, as well as connection with other railway lines.

What percentage of all taxi drivers make unscrupulous detours, do you think?

The constituents of a word salad are neither random nor unrelated, but connected by a net so torn that only detours remain passable.

Are there any detours up ahead?

Detours expand your knowledge of the surroundings.

In truth, the Road is very simple, but human beings like detours.

I doubt if we could have ridden near enough to the ostriches to bola them, so our plan was to make detours on the pampas until we had outflanked, encircled, and altogether puzzled our quarry.