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Example sentences for: detour

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When labor gets involved in politics, this is not a detour from its "real" job of negotiating wages and hours.
Just beyond Seixal, heading east, it is well worth taking a short detour to make the steep climb up to the attractive spot of Chão da Ribeira.
We will allow ourselves a slight detour to explore these religious ideas and to understand their impact on the theory of equality as it developed under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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.
Just north of Inca is the tiny town of Caimari, worth a quick detour to take in the amazing hillside of terraced olive groves, neatly layered among ancient stones.