Instead of that, they had made a wide detour, and crossed at a bend in the river where the stream ran very slowly.
It was now almost dark, and having ascertained the direction in which they were marching, the two took to their heels, and, making a wide detour, ran up to the trenches at the top of the hill.
Turning to the left, he now made a wide detour, and about two hours later rode into Craigside camp, utterly worn out with his exertions.
Twice they stopped to seize upon edible fungi and break them into masses they could carry, and once they paused and made a wide detour around a thicket from which there came a stealthy rustling.
Burl and his little group of followers had to make a wide detour to avoid the battle itself, and the passage between bodies of reinforcements hurrying to the scene of strife was a matter of some difficulty.
Now and then he saw one of the red toadstools, and made a wide detour around it.
He was beginning his favorite trick of making a wide detour.
This was proof that the borderman had not been pursued, but was making a wide detour to get ahead of the enemy.
The distance from this point in a straight line to his destination was only a mile; but a rocky bluff and a ravine necessitated his making a wide detour.
It had been arranged that Hendrick was to start an hour later and make a wide detour to the right, for the purpose of stampeding any birds he could manage to get to the westward of.
Soon the temperature began to fall rapidly, so I waded back, made a wide detour so as to avoid the tarantula-infested area, and fetched my kaross from where it lay among the trees.
We started, Hendrick and I, riding quietly forth on a course a little to the east of south, for we had a wide detour to make.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wide detour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
