Examples of “detour” in a Sentence

noun An indirect route taken instead of the direct one.

• We took a detour to avoid the accident on the motorway.
• The bridge was closed, so the detour added twenty minutes to our trip.
• Follow the orange signs for the detour around the construction site.

verb To take, or send someone on, an indirect route.

• Roadworks forced drivers to detour through the village.
• We had to detour through the next town because of flooding.
• The police detoured traffic away from the parade route.