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Example sentences for: detour

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Before climbing the steps, make a small detour farther along Kongens Gade, past the Lutheran Parsonage (1725), to reach Government House, an archetypal colonial mansion.
When labor gets involved in politics, this is not a detour from its "real" job of negotiating wages and hours.
The Hall of Clocks and Hall of Jewelry, collections of gifts to the emperors, are worth a detour to the right, as is the Nine-Dragon Screen (Jiulongbi), carved in 1775.
Turn inland, because the small village of Moncarapacho, with a fine old church, a sleepy village square, and a local museum, is well worth the 8-km (5-mile) detour.
Rural Route 1 joins the multi-lane US Highway 101 at San Luis Obispo for the final leg to Los Angeles, but two places are worth a detour from the freeway.