6 sentences with 'detested'
Example sentences and phrases with the word detested and other words derived from it.
• « She detested high-speed roads, but that day she drove on a busy California freeway. His sisters commented that it may have been the first time he had ever traversed a four-lane highway. »
• « In turn, the two most important biographers, Tacitus and Suetonius, detested the actions and character of the Julian emperors, so their accounts are riddled with scandalous anecdotes that may or may not have any basis in historical truth. »
• « An introspective man who detested greed and corruption, Muhammad was in the habit of retiring to the hills near Mecca, where there was a cave in which he camped and meditated. »
• « Charlemagne had already restored Pope Leo III to his throne after this pope had been expelled from Rome by powerful Roman families who detested him. »
• « The European population centres were obviously hundreds or thousands of kilometres away and the local people were mostly Jews and Muslims who detested the cruel invaders. »
• « Machiavelli dedicated the work to the Medici in the hope that he would be allowed to return from exile (he detested the rural peasants among whom he lived in exile and longed to return to cosmopolitan Florence). »