make/take a detour• But then-even before he opened his doors-he took a detour.• He made a detour to see it.• In any case all Euro-roads still lead to Rome, though they now take a detour through Mosae Trajectum.• Furthermore, I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive.• Most fail when they take a detour into areas they know nothing about.• Attempting to make a detour, the car got bogged down in a saltlake and was abandoned.• People with baby buggies have to walk in the roadway and residents, I think, have to make a detour.• We used to make a detour going down Lenin Avenue.• We took a detour to avoid the streetrepairs.