Explore Detour through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like road or route. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Detour meaning
- A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- An temporary alternative route available to motorists away from the usual route due to a closure for repairs, dealing with an accident, or some event rendering the usual route unusable.
Using Detour
- The main meaning on this page is: A diversion or deviation from one's original route. | An temporary alternative route available to motorists away from the usual route due to a closure for repairs, dealing with an accident, or some event rendering the usual route unusable.
- Useful related words include: roundabout way, road, route, deviate.
- In the example corpus, detour often appears in combinations such as: the detour, detour to, to detour.
Context around Detour
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Detour
- In this selection, "detour" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kilometer, dgc, owned, lake, gold and route stand out and add context to how "detour" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 69 kilometer detour which was and 1 all detour routes will. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "detour" sits close to words such as adhering, adrenaline and advert, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with detour
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All other vehicles will need to detour. (7 words)
A suggested detour will be posted for others. (8 words)
Below is a composite longitudinal view of Detour Lake. (9 words)
In July, the group has a 5-mile trip planned along the Columbia River Renaissance Trail in Vancouver; she hopes to convince the group to take a detour to see the work she and others have done at the Water Resources Education Center’s garden. (45 words)
Departing director Rafael Vaudrin, comments: “It was a pleasure and an honour to assist in the Company’s transition and it is good to know it is in good hands now and will be able to properly explore the Detour West Property. (42 words)
Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) ("Detour Gold" or the "Company") reports an initial independent mineral resource estimate for the Zone 58N gold deposit located six kilometres south of its 100% owned Detour Lake gold mine. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) ("Detour Gold" or the "Company") reports an initial independent mineral resource estimate for the Zone 58N gold deposit located six kilometres south of its 100% owned Detour Lake gold mine.
In 2019, there was no infill drilling targeting the conversion of mineral resources to mineral reserves within the Detour Lake pit and West Detour project.
A detour has been established to route traffic to the Famoso Drag Strip, site of the Bakersfield Fuel and Gas Championships scheduled for this weekend, but the detour was under water this morning.
Residents are encouraged to use the designated detour route and to use caution while traveling on the detour.
The detour for Bakers Basin Road eastbound is Basin Road to Laura Avenue to Carnegie Road to Route 1. All detour routes will be posted.
All other vehicles will need to detour.
All Repubs have to do is hold on to those feelings and somehow detour them into Market Rule.
A small detour leads directly round the most immediate obstacle, straight to your preferred route.
A suggested detour will be posted for others.
Below is a composite longitudinal view of Detour Lake.
Camms Road in Cranbourne has seen heavier traffic congestion as a detour route.
Complaints were raised about cancelled bookings, and hours of waiting, as others abandoned efforts to go via Oban and made a 100-mile detour to reach the island via Lochaline.
Departing director Rafael Vaudrin, comments: “It was a pleasure and an honour to assist in the Company’s transition and it is good to know it is in good hands now and will be able to properly explore the Detour West Property.
Emergency crews are already on scene, while a detour has been set up, through Barnhartvale Road.
From the leaning skyscrapers to a detour through an American History museum, the episode painstakingly invokes the Boston-set segment of the game.
If you have the time, then take a detour to St Aldates police station where the CID honoured Inspector Morse.
In July, the group has a 5-mile trip planned along the Columbia River Renaissance Trail in Vancouver; she hopes to convince the group to take a detour to see the work she and others have done at the Water Resources Education Center’s garden.
Jordan has maintained that his baseball detour was meant to fulfill the wishes of his late father.
Motorists were sent on a 43-mile (69-kilometer) detour, which was going “better than it would do on a weekday,“ Rudolph said.
Motorists were sent on a 43-mile (69-kilometer) detour, which was going “better than it would do on a weekday,” Rudolph said.
Common combinations with detour
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the detour 26×
- detour to 23×
- to detour 11×
- detour route 10×
- and detour 9×
- detour gold 8×
- detour will 8×
- take detour 6×
- took detour 6×
- detour lake 5×