Detours is valid Scrabble Word

Is detours a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is detours valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for DETOURS in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

a long or roundabout route that is taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way
an alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed.

Words related to DETOURS

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How to use DETOURS in a sentence

His coat was heavy on his arm, his thin patent-leather ties pinched and burned and demanded detours around swampy places, but he was happy.
Elsewhere, the ground quaked and yielded underfoot, and it became necessary to make detours to avoid these arid bogs.
She rode idly with long detours inland in search of nothing at all.
To escape observation it was necessary to make wide detours.
For the detours which they are forced to make are many and steep besides.
Then I determined to pay no attention to these detours, but push along the beach.
Tongues of brush and tree clumps brought about detours which forced them slowly downward.
On one of these detours we passed through Zimmerin, a German colony magnificently situated on a hillside and surrounded by a great forest.
Again it would be broken away from the base of sheer cliffs, where stretches of open water would necessitate toilsome inland detours over or around lofty headlands.
I must have gone a long distance in the many detours I made.

Its roots are so eager for water that they make long detours, sometimes even climbing up and down a stone wall, if it is in their route, or into a well.
Several times they saw fires burning, and had to take long detours to avoid them.
At times they came on perpendicular precipices, and had to make long detours to surmount them.
After a look at the Roman Wall, and a sight of Bamborough, we shall run to Warwickshire with few detours or pauses.
She made wide detours to avoid a reference or remark that might reflect upon my engagement.
Trees had fallen across the way, and dangerous detours on uncertain footing were necessary to get round them.
The distance, increased by detours and obstacles which could not be surmounted directly, was long.
The density of the scrubs had obliged me to make some detours to the left, so that I did not reach the Bogan till long after it was quite dark.
By making great detours we went around every field, consuming much time, it is true, but we had plenty of time.
We covered miles in our detours and we had to travel fast because we knew Edd could round the base of the lower points in quick time.
He attempts no sentimental detours and permits himself no popular superfluities.
They went on in advance, digging everywhere in the snow for wood, examining carefully the banks of the river, and making occasional detours into the snowy plain to the northward.
He walked slowly because of his bruises, and many times he made small detours, thinking that a blotch of shadow off to one side might be his pack train.
Fallen trees lay across our rocky trail and at times we had to make wide detours, forcing our way through thick underbrush and scaling slippery rocks.

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