How to Use diversionary in a Sentence

diversionary

adjective

• This is nothing more than a diversionary tactic to distract attention from the issues.
• Is in-class pizza so normal in US schools that it can be used as a diversionary tactic?
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2007
• If not, Peltz will have his work cut out for him at the proxy ballot box as a diversionary illusionist.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• One man’s look back at the best of times, which – as pointed out in a couple diversionary chapters – includes some men with the worst of intentions.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2017
• The squirter might also try to clean the spot, another diversionary tactic.
  — Andrea Sachs, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• Nord Stream 2, just like Nord Stream 1, is intended to be a diversionary pipeline.
  — Alan Riley, WSJ, 24 July 2017
• The scapegoating of Wall Street and the City [of London] may be a diversionary tactic but there is nothing fake about the animus that lies behind it.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
• The Russians will be looking for signs of where the brigades are deployed and whether they will be split up to enable supporting or diversionary attacks.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
• The ensemble’s game, but nobody gets much in the way of lighthearted diversion even in the diversionary bits.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• The fires were most likely a diversionary tactic while the gunman robbed the casino, Mr. Albayalde said.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 3 June 2017
• In the end, Higgins gives us an Elon Musk who functions most strikingly as a diversionary tactic.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
• The profound state-society conflict that has ensued since then may provoke the regime to look for a diversionary battle.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
• No amount of diversionary talk over other evidence can now change that.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• With the diversionary force defeated, Russia went on the offensive for phase two.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• Burning the casino could be a diversionary tactic for his escape.
  — Todd Pitman, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
• Whether this help should go to prisons and jails or diversionary programs is another hot debate.
  — Morgan Simon, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Some Venezuelans, used to Mr Maduro’s diversionary tactics, refused to believe the story.
  — The Economist, 14 May 2020
• When large predators defend their food caches, ravens call in other flock members to engage in diversionary tactics for gaining access to the food.
  — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• Was arrested in March 2015 and charged in connection to a bar fight, but avoiding trial by agreeing to a diversionary program.
  — The Kansas City Star, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• But diversionary structures opened up a legal can of worms, explained Lockwood.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2014
• While much was made of it - there was chatter about secret tunnels and diversionary tactics - Rockets players dismissed it as not being that big a deal.
  — Jenny Dial Creech, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• Both Brady and Belichick have developed their own diversionary tactics with the media.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• McCune believes a mixture of law enforcement and diversionary long-term treatment is the best approach to solving the crisis.
  — Sean Robinson, The Seattle Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Garcia and her colleagues called that a diversionary tactic.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• After the lunch break, the situation did not improve, although Gorsuch did add a Socrates quote to his stable of diversionary chestnuts.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 21 Mar. 2017
• When the Chinese economy falters, the danger is not diversionary war.
  — M. Taylor Fravel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2023
• Police are not disclosing details of why the boys brought weapons to school, but said Wednesday that both have been referred to a diversionary program in the juvenile justice system.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 16 May 2018
• Fourth, those opposed to the message of the film resort to classic diversionary tactics to create false controversy.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2017
• As OregonLive celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend, the site is no longer a diversionary side project or strange step child to a much larger newspaper.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
• The group provides support for community members who have had, or plan to have, diversionary bowel and bladder surgery.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024