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How to use detest in a sentence

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I detest the cult of body fascism, the more so since I live in its global capital.
I absolutely detest gnomes and the majority of people living in the big houses would not want gnomes in their gardens either.
And all the way, most like a brutish beast, he spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
I hate launch week because you suddenly detest all of the work that you've put your heart into for months.
But it also seems that, if you look to those who tend to dislike him, you very quickly find those who positively detest him.
Some shoppers detest them intensely, while millions will use them but can't be bothered to claim the benefits.
Wodehouse is loved by Indians who loathe Kipling and detest the Raj and all its works.
They loathe tinsel, detest office parties and abhor rum balls of all kinds.
I detest violence but for once, whilst I still didn't agree with it I could understand it.
But even if you detest their music and can't stand their ways, remember that God is no respecter of persons.
Is this the unprincipled pliability I detest in the people I put up with at Rome?
I detest her attempts to personify a chummy Liverpudlian lass when she probably hasn't been near the Scotty Road for 40 years.
The Government's been so successful in dominating the middle ground, and voters seem to detest any whiff of political ideology.
Howard, love him or detest him, has earned respect as a leader with incredible staying power, and dogged consistency over the years.
For one thing, the sanctimonious sermons by journalists about how virtuous and upstanding they are make them easy to detest.
It is a fact known worldwide that I detest Brussel sprouts as strongly as their strong flavour.
That was a subcurrent in hippiedom which I cannot entirely detest since I feel its appeal.
What a refreshing change it is to experience a service person that does not detest his or her job.
Now while many people are afraid of mice, they can absolutely hate and detest rats!
Why would anybody report to work day after day to a place they simply detest?
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Examples from Classical Literature
I detest the reflection that I would have sacrificed your happiness to mine.
That he should detest the corrupt and oppressive forms of religion of his own century was neither surprising nor blamable.
It is the abstract, preceptive, and barren form, and the presumptuous manner in which these are presented that they detest.
There was at the seminary a curst Lazarist, who by undertaking to teach me Latin made me detest it.
If there's one sort of man I detest more than another, it's a man who is sorry for himself.
I particularly detest Dover for the self-complacency with which it goes to bed.
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.
I detest these connubial details and will not have a married servant.
Never had it seemed to her possible she could detest him as she did now.
That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise.
I have such a fellow feeling for her, for I always detest grammar.
So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we?
I detest that hollandaise more since she carries about such a casket.
If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
Successful punters detest them, bookmakers defend or deny them and unsuccessful punters tend to think the chance would be a fine thing.
I detest every atom of the filthy, stuck-up, stuccoed hovel.
Beware that I do not write to you a fourth time to tell you that I detest you.
You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.
I have no bowels for hypocrisy, and I abominate and detest kingship.
I adore having people come to see me, and I detest going to see them.
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