Example sentences for: detests

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

  • The officials now know him so well that they drop the loud, jangling popular music he detests on the loudspeaker and put on chamber music.

  • The right detests gambling because it promises something for nothing.

  • --Sorority gal Jennifer Coup detests Dartmouth's plan to eliminate single-sex fraternities and sororities.

  • Most recently, he compelled Rupert Murdoch's 20 th Century Fox to put up $35 million for Bulworth and to give him absolute creative control over the film, even though 1) it was a political movie and hence a lousy investment, and 2) it propounded ideas Murdoch detests.

  • At the end of the 1980s, teen films took a darker turn with the black comedy Heathers . The three popular girls, who all have the same name, take up Veronica (Winona Ryder), who can't resist the offer of inclusion but detests their values (they make her ignore her old friends and play cruel practical jokes on losers).


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