Noun After a number of unexpected detours, we finally arrived at our destination. The little restaurant is worth a detour. We had to make a detour around the heaviest traffic. We took a detour from the main streets. The road is closed ahead, so traffic will have to follow the detour. Verb We detoured around the heaviest traffic. A police officer was detouring traffic around the scene of the accident. Traffic will be detoured to 72nd Street. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Even if the day was a detour, Cora wanted his players to throw themselves into it. Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022 For Delsol, this has all been a rather fascinating detour through the history of horses. Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022 This episode is a fun detour into the lighter side of the crew's five-year mission. Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022 The new design—with a rigid probe on top of a stretchy couplant layer—is a detour from other patches, says Zhao, which often made the actual probe flexible.Wired, 29 July 2022 Yet what made the show memorable was a raunchy detour into Tom of Finland territory.New York Times, 29 June 2022 Today, many fast chargers are a detour of a few minutes, sometimes longer, because that’s not a big addition to a 45 minute charge session, and there’s a more suitable location further away. Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Those who wanted another full flamenco affair like El Mal Querer might be disappointed, but MOTOMAMI is an exciting detour where Rosalía flexes her seemingly limitless artistry across 16 tracks. Lucas Villa, SPIN, 18 Mar. 2022 In March 2020, the festival was just a little more than halfway through its 10 days at the Egyptian when it was shut down, with one of its final showings being a one-night detour to the Legion Theatre. Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2022
Verb
Detour: Signs will detour motorists to Iowa Street, East Pleasant Run Parkway North Drive, Shelby and Raymond streets. Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022 Detour: Vehicles will detour via Raymond Street, Troy Avenue and Keystone Avenue. Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Aug. 2022 For Valdez travel, drivers can detour around the closure by using the Tok Cutoff and the Alaska Highway. Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2022 Ride On buses continue to detour Routes 70, 71, 73, 78, 79 and 100 because of the lane closures. Justin George, Washington Post, 16 June 2022 Detour: Signs will detour motorists to Iowa Street, East Pleasant Run Parkway North Drive, Shelby and Raymond streets. Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2022 IndyGo Routes 4, 26 and 39 will detour along temporary stops on Meadows Drive, Meadows Parkway, Millersville Road and Oxford Road. Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2022 Officers also helped detour nine MTS buses whose routes were interrupted by traffic congestion, which spanned about 30 blocks, said Police Chief Jose Tellez.San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2022 Northbound Loop 101 drivers can detour to westbound Loop 202 towards Sky Harbor Airport or downtown Phoenix, and southbound Loop 101 drivers can use westbound Loop 202 to connect to the I-10. Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
French détour, from Old French destor, from destorner to divert, from des- de- + torner to turn — more at turn