Example Sentences

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All three networks kept putting on people saying, 'The public will detest this,' blatantly calling for the public to respond.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the former, owing to his probity, we entertain no great feelings of enmity: the latter, owing to his cruelty, our country has detested and always will detest.

From Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley

He dislikes me now, when we are married it will be worse, a year hence he will detest me altogether and tell you so, perhaps.'

From Greifenstein by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

She scorn'd thee once, but now she will detest And loathe to look upon thy dark'ned face; Ah me, most miserable Polyphemus!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various