DETEST in a Sentence
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56 example sentences for DETEST, such as:
1. I know you always detest politicians.
2. It makes one detest all one's acquaintance.
3. I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
4. The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
5. He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.
2. It makes one detest all one's acquaintance.
3. I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
4. The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
5. He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DETEST
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detest
v. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1 But she declared that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her fierce stage of devotion.
2 I abhor psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest yet more any one who should maintain the contrary.
3 Tasting a mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls do not detest this.
4 Beware that I do not write to you a fourth time to tell you that I detest you.
5 So she feigned a mocking laugh and said, "Eurynome, I have changed my mind, and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them."
6 A night will come when I shall have to yield myself to a marriage which I detest, for Jove has taken from me all hope of happiness.
7 You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.
8 It makes one detest all one's acquaintance.
9 I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
10 He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.
11 The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
12 He would detest and despise her, for he had come almost to hate the shoving forward of the working classes.
13 You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.
14 The allies detest Napoleon whom they regard as the cause of their sufferings.
15 She would not have detested him so heartily had she not known that he dared to admire her.
Example Sentence:
1 I know you always detest politicians.
2 I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.