I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street, and she was shivering with wet and cold.
■ VERB
make
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Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned.
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On our walk back to the ferry dock that afternoon we make one last detour to the beach.
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We used to make a detour going down Lenin Avenue.
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People with baby buggies have to walk in the roadway and residents, I think, have to make a detour .
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He made a detour to see it.
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On the way to the tomato patch they made a detour to Louis's workshop to collect some baskets.
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The traveller was forced to make an enormous detour .
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The others, making courteous detours around them, talk, stop talking, kiss.
take
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To justify such an approach it is necessary to take a theoretical detour .
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In any case all Euro-roads still lead to Rome, though they now take a detour through Mosae Trajectum.
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Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive.
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Nor when, a couple of hours later, they travelled back south towards the coast and took a detour into Silves.
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Most fail when they take a detour into areas they know nothing about.
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Instead of taking a detour , I decided it would be fun to pass through the flood, and drove towards it.
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Tom Margittai successfully resisted the temptation to take a major detour from his original dream.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive.
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Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
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Moving from consultant to implementer is a detour you should be aware of.
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On our walk back to the ferry dock that afternoon we make one last detour to the beach.
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People with baby buggies have to walk in the roadway and residents, I think, have to make a detour .
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She could make just a small detour ... She had a decent map, didn't she?
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This is the how-to, practical guide that will help you avoid opportunistic detours and stay on track.
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To justify such an approach it is necessary to take a theoretical detour .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before the opening of this new marina, yachts had to detour to the south to the Canaries.
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But the movie tells the wrong story, getting detoured into a murder investigation whose solution is far too obvious.
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Later in the morning Fakhrti detoured over back roads to his house.
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Mitchell trudged down the hall toward his corner office, detouring into the washroom to assess the damage to his hair.
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Northbound traffic was being detoured from I-5 to Highway 33 northbound to 140 westbound and back to I-5.
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On that same day, Franco ordered Varela to detour to Toledo.
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Pacino detours his motorcade to visit the grieving parents.
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When the actual construction began, I detoured daily on my way to school to check out the progress being made.