How to Use divert in a Sentence

divert

verb

• The stream was diverted toward the farmland.
• Police diverted traffic to a side street.
• He lied to divert attention from the real situation.
• They're only proposing the law to divert attention from important issues.
• They were charged with illegally diverting public funds for private use.
• Some friends had to sit and watch it with me: I would not be diverted.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
• The device is then deployed, which acts like a stent to divert blood away from the aneurysm.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• The big picture: The change is part of a wider city effort to divert refuse from landfills.
  — Asher Price, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
• Democrats hope the focus on Trump will divert the scrutiny of Biden.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 June 2022
• The crew was able to restore the flow of fuel and the flight was diverted to Portland, Oregon.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• And once more, people are asking if anything can be done to stop or divert the flow.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
• In six of those cases, airplanes had to divert to avoid hitting the drone, Vinograd said.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The concept is to divert profit from the scalpers and place it back in the pockets of the artist and Ticketmaster itself.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 27 July 2022
• The city could end up diverting up to 8.2 million gallons of lake water per day.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Civilian airports have been closed in Iran and flights from the Persian Gulf were diverted.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• Some of the floats, bands and balloons appeared to be diverted to avoid the protesters who had glued themselves to the pavement.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Humans in the past have tried to divert or even stop lava from advancing.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• But for much of her life, the water has been so heavily diverted that the riverbed in the city has usually sat dry.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• Dozens, maybe 100s, of vehicles were stuck in the backups in swirling snow as highway patrol tried to divert them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
• Sandbags can help divert water if your yard is prone to flooding.
  — NBC News, 19 Aug. 2023
• But that screen in your hand isn’t just diverting your attention.
  — Markham Heid, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• People have burned pipes that could divert water away to other cities.
  — Lauren Tierney, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• About 2,000 were diverted, meaning CAM helped the household find a safe place to stay outside of shelters.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• Three years later, Pate found a fifth of her paycheck diverted to an unknown debt.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2023
• The simple action of taking a photo can divert our attention and take us out of the moment.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Pumps were deployed to divert water around the dam, and the structure ultimately held.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Water that once flowed south from the lake through the Everglades and into the Gulf was diverted into thousands of canals to dry the land for farming.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• As a result, available ROVs were diverted to the area to begin searching.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 22 June 2023
• Russia initially claimed the crash was caused by a collision with a flock of birds, with bad weather playing a role in diverting the flight.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
• DeWine also said Ohio needs to do more work to divert people with mental illness or drug addiction to treatment, rather than lockups.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025