Use "make a detour" in a sentence
make a detour example sentences
make a detour
1. Billy gets the cab driver to make a detour to the supermarket where there is a twenty-four-hour cash machine
2. When they entered the downtown sector of Saigon, Jacques had the taxi driver make a detour so that they could pass in front of a large French colonial style building with armed soldiers posted at its entrances
3. The steamer we had to reach was surrounded by them and we had to make a detour to reach her, for between her and us lay another huge berg