How to Use change the subject in a Sentence

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• Take a page from your mother's book and … change the subject.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2022
• Kennedy kept his about-face, as another guest soon tried to change the subject.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• The person said the campaign is looking for ways to change the subject and land more attacks on Warnock.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
• The solution is to change the subject, change your position in the room or, if all else fails, change the guest list next time.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• The solution is to change the subject, change your position in the room, or, if all else fails, change the guest list next time.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• In the same breath, however, Woods was quick to change the subject to finishing drives.
  — Stefan Stevenson, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Last month, Kate was quick to change the subject during a visit to a school when one of the students asked about Meghan and Harry.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• His backers surely would have breathed a sigh of relief and perhaps tried to change the subject.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
• If a friend starts talking about someone else, say something nice about that person and change the subject.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
• Randall tries to change the subject and then mercifully is called away.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 May 2021
• If someone asks you about children, get ready to change the subject or walk away from the conversation.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• Just say something that sounds balanced and reasonable and strikes some kind of bland middle ground, and then change the subject.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
• What better way for Santos to change the subject of his own failings than by pitching a flaming bag of poop on your porch.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 26 Feb. 2023
• In response, many on the American right decided to change the subject.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 May 2021
• Whenever the headlines turned on him or his approval ratings fell, Abe just called a new snap election to change the subject.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, in a bizarre livestream Wednesday afternoon, Dershowitz tried to change the subject to Israel and Hamas.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• Cold weather, with or without new electric outages, could change the subject of the elections to last year’s freeze and the legislative response to it.
  — Ross Ramsey, Chron, 19 Nov. 2021
• So far, most Republican candidates have sought to dodge the topic or change the subject.
  — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• Having failed to change the subject, Facebook simply opted to change itself.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2021
• No one would wish Covid-19 on anyone, not even Trump, but the president has spent the last six months desperately attempting to change the subject.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2020
• Republicans are hungry to change the subject away from Trump and anything Democrats want to go on the offensive about in Washington.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• Trump spent much of the rally again downplaying the severity of the pandemic that, despite his efforts to change the subject, has become the defining issue of the campaign.
  — Jonathan Lemire, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
• The debate commission format meant that Page was required to change the subject every nine minutes or so, but even so, the topic needed a followup...
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• This might be stepping away to practice deep breathing or having topics on hand to change the subject altogether.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• His goal is to change the subject and have a different argument altogether.
  — David Karpf, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and a doctor, is trying to change the subject.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• On and off the campaign trail, when Trump has sought to change the subject from his management of a deadly pandemic, Barr and the Justice Department have never been far from the president's mind.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
• Russell and her husband, who did not want to be interviewed for fear of backlash in the workplace, advised their daughter that if someone started talking to her about her faith, to change the subject, put on headphones, or read.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• Eager to change the subject, Mr. Bolsonaro this week turned his attention to the American presidential election.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• So as with inflation generally, their basic strategy when asked to justify this outrage is to change the subject.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024