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detour English

Meaning detour meaning

What does detour mean?

detour

— noun a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) — verb travel via a detour

Synonyms detour synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as detour?

detour English » English

bypass roundabout way go around diversion deviation sheer turning movement skirt roundabout go round circle aberration wide turn veer twirl turn tour tangent take around swerve slide over skate over side road sheer off scam roundabout route round ring road rim pretence pass by makebelieve make a detour long way around long way long road journey indirection indirect route humbug hem fraud dissimulation dissemblance digression deviate detour road departure deflect deception

Topics detour topics

What do people use detour to talk about?
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

Conjugation detour conjugation

How do you conjugate detour?

detour · verb

Examples detour examples

How do I use detour in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We need to make a slight detour.
Take a detour to reach the goal!
There was a detour on the road.
Tom had to take a detour.
Let's take a detour.
We were obliged to make a detour.

Movie subtitles

We need to take a detour on the way to St Judas.
He arrived to France through Nantes after making a carefull detour over England, believing to have detached all officers who followed his footsteps.
You can stay the night there and come back the next day but you must not on any account miss the falls of Reichenbach which is only a small detour.
The son of a gun made a detour.
See, we got on a detour-- It's posted clear enough, ain't it? Signed every hundred feet.
With that new detour, he gets 'em all the time.
Took a detour to see how you were doing without me.
There's something screwy about this detour or whatever it is.
You wanna enjoy some scenery en route and you're not reluctant to spend an extra four bits for a detour with Mother Nature.
If you'd got that cow out of the way, we needn't have taken that detour.
I suggest you take a detour to the south.
That detour will cost us two hours.
If her home is gone, this detour may be for nothing.
Mr. Christian horn, family and party heading west after a brief detour to the twilight zone.
I'm willing to detour.
I'm going to try a detour.
Next time, I want my payment without any detour.
This is a detour.
A detour?
Why the detour?
A detour.
I suggest we take a little detour and have a look around lschl.
After all, it's a detour on a main highway.
What if I was the last one on this detour?
How nice that you made a detour through Vienna.
THERE WAS A DETOUR THROUGH THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
IT MAY INVOLVE A DETOUR, BUT IT'S STILL THE BEST ROUTE.
Can't we detour around that-a-way?
My dear dragon, this time we'd better make a detour. - Oh.
We'll have to do a detour.
Would you like to make a detour?
You'll have to take the detour.
Oh, the next time I come through town. on my way from Vegas. if there's a detour and if my car breaks down.
On the way back to Paris, I decided to make a detour.
We might have to make a detour to the ladies.
Colonel, we're sitting and waiting here for a frontal attack. But what if the Reds take a detour?
Worth the detour.

News and current affairs

Such measures are, of course, an unfortunate detour.
But it has also been an enforced detour from the vital diplomatic task of building new rules and institutions for an interdependent world.
Perhaps, then, he would have looked at the period from 1914 to 1945 as a terrible but limited detour in the world's march toward peace and prosperity.

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