Example Sentences

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Detested and beloved, the structure was demolished in 1997.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022

Detested by pretty much everyone but the surrealists, Locus Solus can hardly be called a good novel, but it does give off an exciting crackle of the unfamiliar.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2015

The first clerihew, written by Bentley at 16 when he was attending a lecture on chemistry: Sir Humphrey Davy Detested gravy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Detested by his pupils, he was a victim to every sort of petty persecution from them, so that cruelty acted and reacted between him and them.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

Detested yoke! within me to destroy The vigor and the bloom of youth!

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma