Antonyms for detour
ˈdi tʊər, dɪˈtʊərde·tour

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1. detour, roundabout wayverb

   a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

   Synonyms:
   roundabout way

2. detourverb

   travel via a detour

How to use detour in a sentence?

1. Bob Reish:

   Patience is the discipline to we have that will enable us to reach the goals we aspire to achieve without taking the easy detour which leads to a dead end.

2. Austin Eubanks:

   Obviously, after that, my life took a pretty big detour, as a result of my injuries, I was pretty significantly medicated about 45 minutes after being shot. I remember immediately being drawn to that feeling, because it took the emotion away.

3. Mary Kay Ash:

   When you come to a road block, take a detour.

4. Denis Watley:

   Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

5. Zig Ziglar:

   Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

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