Example sentences for: detest

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

  • 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.

  • They are conservatives who fundamentally detest U.S. involvement in Kosovo and have little interest in the morality of the issue.

  • 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.

  • “You two are testimony enough for Fanny's culinary powers, although I do detest her slicing the bread so thick.


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