Much as I detest water in small quantities (to drink), I have a hydromania in the way of lakes, rivers, and waterfalls.
On this account they did not cease to detest each other, though their apparent reconciliation being believed at court, contributed in no little degree to the advancement of M.
I detest the cold, and Montreux, which has been called the Riviera of Helvetia, offered a climate tempered against the pernicious bise.
Which particulars I hope so to prosecute, that any man shall be able easily to discern, and ready heartily to detest this practice.
Is it not grown so common a thing to asperse causelessly that no man wonders at it, that few dislike, that scarce any detest it?
From the bottom of my soul, I loathe anddetest the Vestiges.
You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.
I detest slaves, and therefore proposed a modern menage, in keeping with our views.
My love for you is as great as ever it was, believe me, but I detest your dog.
I detest jargon of every kind; and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.
Pennell tells us, the outlaws who live by raiding and robbery, and the Mullahs who detest the infidel and fear his rule, are the fomenters of crime and outrage.
A soldier may detest the service he is called on to perform, but he is bound to obey orders.
Yet I do not believe in negro suffrage, and I abhor and detest every exaction that the politicians in Washington have placed upon the people of the South.
Those who detest the harmless writer of this column are generally reduced (in their final ecstasy of anger) to calling him "brilliant;" which has long ago in our journalism become a mere expression of contempt.
Horton may possibly loathe and detest Limericks just as I loathe and detest riddles; but I have no right to call them flippant and unprofitable; there are wild people in the world who like riddles.
Tavia quailed, she did so detest doing anything that a born and bred New York girl would not do.
You do not know how I detest the country, partridges, rabbits and all.
This gains me a respect which makes me laugh sometimes, when I see people who detest me greet me as cordially as the Cure of Saint-Eustache greeted Bayle, for fear that I might destroy their favorite saint.
And right loath am I to continue my partnership with a fellow who will not see things on the surface, and is, as a necessary consequence, blind to the fact that the public detest him.
I detest anything that has to do with gratitude," Wilfrid appended, "pray give me none.
I do detest upper seats at feasts," said she; "it exposes you to observation, while in our pleasant obscurity we can enjoy a little friendly chat.
I detest this covert manner of attack; it is mean and unfair in the highest degree, as it deprives the person attacked from taking his own part, and boldly defending himself.
You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.
The further our souls draw apart, the more disgusting this forced intimacy, the prostitution under the marriage vow, which I detest and abhor.
Reason enough for the old maids and childless wives, my new sweet relatives, to detest me.
But infinite such as he, in heaven won, And more then infinite Earths about those Suns do run; 20 And to speak out: though I detest the sect Of Epicurus for their manners vile, Yet what is true I may not well reject.
I detest the sect/ of Epicurus for their manners vile,/ Yet what is true I may not well reject.
On the one hand I desire and strive for it; on the other I detest it.
When I say that I detest kings, I mean I detest bad kings.
It was a hard thing, and she was prepared to detest the interloper.
You detest the Duchess of Lostwithiel, and you don't care for pianoforte recitals.
It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
