How to Use diversion in a Sentence

diversion

noun
  • Sports provide him with a welcome diversion from the pressures of his job.
  • Hiking is one of my favorite diversions.
  • Our town offers few diversions.
  • He created a diversion while his partner stole her pocketbook.
  • As part of the plea, the youth agreed to enter a diversion program for six to nine months.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes your brain just gets tired and needs a rest — or at least a diversion.
    Deb Amlen, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The court, with the boy’s parents’ consent, placed the teen into a diversion program.
    cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Most do not attend school, and there are few diversions.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Dodge nosy questions about your love life with a clever diversion.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 31 July 2024
  • The crime may disappear into the ether, or the youth may be sent into diversion.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
  • There should be a greater focus on diversion and treatment, Biehl said.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The teen had been referred to Beats Not Bullets by the city through a diversion program for young people, Beasley said.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
  • But in the 1960s, the diversion of yet more of the Amu Darya’s flow into the new Karakum Canal precipitated a tipping point.
    Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Cal Fire officials had said there was a spot fire that was about 30 to 40 acres across the diversion pool in the Lakeland Boulevard area.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
  • Exercise on its own can be linked to GI woes due to jostling and the diversion of blood flow away from the gut (hello, runner’s trots).
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 Nov. 2023
  • There was diversion of methadone into the black market.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The risk of the diversion of foreign aid in wartorn countries has long bedeviled the U.S. and other countries.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Just as Davidson may have been something of a diversion for Kardashian, so too was the pair a balm for our weary souls.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Because of that, the launch of VB Body, a new line of jersey separates and dresses, might seem like a diversion.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Trump will not have the scope, so often exploited in the past, to create diversions from this drama.
    Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Who’s flying close to the north pole, which volcanos are causing diversions.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In the end, his case was denied diversion into mental health court.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The buses took a long diversion across fields and marshland as the main crossing point over a river had been destroyed.
    Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • That’s what can happen when this sort of thing becomes a diversion — the threshold keeps being raised.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
  • And not to be overshadowed by all the outdoorsy diversions, art and culture abound in this upscale beach town.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, Hill was working in a diversion program with youth offenders, and Mack was assigned to a group home where some of those youths lived.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Others have suggested that this could be a diversion from the other side.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The diversion program could eventually lead to dismissal of the gun charge.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • Rhiannon Do also agreed to forfeit the Tustin house as part of her diversion agreement.
    Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Ropes courses, a zip line, airsoft gun challenges, and a dinosaur maze provide diversions for all ages, and the wooded park offers lots of shade.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024

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