Example sentences for: detested

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

  • 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.

  • loyal to my own music for fifty years though I detested snare drums and tap dancing, just as I do those singers now who hold their left fists in the air while holding the microphone

  • 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.

  • The Alexanders, middle-class black leaders who were uncomfortable with street protest, detested Moore.


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