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 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 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
• 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
• Under the law, the state can divert up to $90 million of lottery revenue annually to pay back the $1.2 billion in bonds.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Using the threat of warnings and citations, the city sought to divert the teens from busy intersections to services and jobs.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• The flight was diverted to Amarillo, where the FBI and local police were waiting.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Israel has barred entry of fuel since the start of the war, saying it would be diverted by Hamas for military means.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 18 Nov. 2023
• The goal is to divert more traffic away from the town of Cooper Landing, where the existing highway is winding, low-speed and close to the Kenai River.
  — Elizabeth Earl For The Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Still, appearing so close to Election Day is unusual and sure to draw plenty of attention and scrutiny — along with her decision to divert to New York for such a brief appearance during the home stretch.
  — Dave Lawler, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024
• Garcia, from the advocacy network in El Paso, said U.S. border policies meant to deter crossings by diverting immigration flows to risky areas have done little to stop people from trying to cross.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024