Example sentences for: detest

How can you use “detest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Isn't this the sort of thing we used to detest when the Soviets did it?

  • Testimony and detest are both based on Latin testis `witness, testicle.

  • Everyone seems to detest legal gambling--everyone, that is, except the public.

  • The root sense of testimony , then, is `a laying of the testes on the evidence table' and of detest is to `hate to the extent of losing one's testicles.

  • The leaders of the Band socialize with the Jocks--before he was expelled last year, Band leader Newton Gingrich briefly challenged Clinton for Most Popular--but rank-and-file Bandits detest the Jocks and Poms.


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