Example sentences for: detested

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

  • The hottest celebrity in America is a TV star with no discernible talent who is 66 years old--that's 462 in TV years--whose partner is the most detested woman on television, and whose claims to fame are an evening game show that no one wins ( Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

  • Within weeks, Willes had made himself one of the most detested men in journalism.

  • A comment piece in the Independent of London Wednesday said that Barak has come to power "with the immense advantage of succeeding Benjamin Netanyahu, who, in three years, became the most widely detested Israeli leader at home and abroad since the formation of the state.

  • This scenario owes a great deal to John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937), sire of the Standard Oil monopoly, patron saint of the modern corporation and, in his time, the most detested man in the United States.

  • Though Saddam Hussein was widely detested, many Saudis are sympathetic to the anti-U.S. insurgents in Iraq, although majorities also condemn jihadist attacks in the Kingdom.


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