| Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom. |
| Detesting, as I did, tranquillity, I used to send my man-servant to copy the telegrams. |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky stayed there briefly, detesting the subversive pro-Polish sentiment of what was the third-largest city in the tsarist empire. |
| Detesting the French Revolution and the egalitarian doctrines it spawned, he tried to thwart Jefferson's policies that might aid France or injure England and to induce Washington to follow his own ideas in foreign policy. |
| There is a difference between hating something and detesting it. |
| A rhythm that Theresa, Joseph's wife, ends up detesting. The evening of the French Championships, the defeat of one of the two girls throws the survival of the club into peril and shatters the family's equilibrium. |
