An average of fifteen miles an hour had to be made, including change of horses, detours for safety, and time for meals.
I replied that I was always cautious, made detours whenever I noticed anything suspicious.
To follow its detours all the way around would add seventy to a hundred miles to their journey, according as they hugged the shore or made straight cuts across some of the wooded promontories.
Even the penetrating civilization of Greece reached it only by long detours around the ends of the mountain barrier; by Massilia and the Rhone, by Istria and the Danube, Greek commerce trickled through to the interior of the continent.
London's fortified position at the head of the Thames estuary closed this stream as a line of invasion to the early Saxons, and forced them to make detours to the north and south of the river, which therefore became a tribal boundary.
By riding at night, and making allowances for the wide detours we shall be compelled to undertake, we should reach our friends in three days at most.
The detour may be hard going, detoursusually are, but they also offer more thrills and adventures than the broad highway.
Detours were notoriously rough even if they sometimes offered adventure, she thought whimsically.
We were really overcautious and made wide detours round houses and took great pains not to meet any one on the road.
Many detours were necessary to avoid the villages and houses, and for the most part I walked across country by small paths which were very clearly shown on my excellent map.
The detours wasted much time and were very tiring, so we deliberately took more risks and walked straight on, in spite of the dogs, as long as we neither saw nor heard a human being.
There are lanes, too, and they compel one to make long detours or go long distances over thin, small floes, ridges, and other abominations.
After Humes's the trail wound through abysmal forest depths, skirting fir and pine and cedar of unbelievable girth, or making irksome detours where some fallen monarch blocked the way.
Then a mile up steep snow slopes, and detours around the base of lesser piles of rock rising almost perpendicularly from the floor of snow, and we were at the foot of the final climb.
The scrub disputed their passage the whole route, being often so dense as to defy the use of the axe, and many long detours had to be made before they reached their goal.
Sometimes his route lay along the river's bank; at other times by keeping to the foot of a sandstone ridge he was enabled to avoid detours around many wearisome bends.
They followed it for another two days, but made no further discoveries, being greatly delayed by the constant detours around the heads of small tributary creeks, too deep to cross in the neighbourhood of the river.
Some came boldly along the road; others skulked in woods, and made long detours to escape detection; a few were composedly playing cards, or heating their coffee, or discussing the order and consequences of the fight.
Detours well enough, have completely forgotten the name of my Vendean.
Detours May I now be permitted to lose my own poor little individuality in the vortex of the general movement that was urging thirty to forty thousand human beings with one common impulse towards Rambouillet.
Meanwhile, the downpour continued and the creeks rose steadily, obliging him to make numerous detours and to follow the ridge roads wherever possible.
More descents, climbs and detours would bring it to the foot of White glacier, and thence through Summerland and Cowlitz Park, and westward to a junction with the existing road in Paradise.
By making due allowances for detours and halts at pressure lines, the number of hours traveled gave us a fair estimate of the day's distance.
Caravans--such as ventured to start--made long and wearisome detours to avoid battlefields.
In some of the detourswhere there was no path, we scrambled up and down terrifying slopes.
The two detours already made had cost him time and distance.
On the whole Sevier was much pleased with his own progress, for he had been compelled to make detours and to dodge roving bands of savages.
Abreast of the lights of Grand View, he swung almost due south and laid a course for Clayton, making the briefest possible detours to avoid the islands that lay in his path.
The launch still voyaged in mid-stream, making irregular detours where islands loomed out of the channel.
These detours were in general much longer than the direct road would have been, and he received a constant stream of abuse, to say nothing of blows, from the people whose crops he was ruining.
I made wide detours around that side of the bed the rest of the time we remained at Alexandria, afraid of the very weapon to which I was indebted for tranquil hours.
At times they came on perpendicular precipices, and had to make long detours to surmount them.
Several times they saw fires burning, and had to take long detours to avoid them.
It had been a dreary, tedious march, made worse by long detours to avoid burnt bridges, detours over roads where the heavy wagons of the army sank hub-deep in the glue-like mud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
