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
• 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
• But some experts say the government needs to provide more funding for STD work, not divert it.
  — Mike Stobbe, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Every bit of time and energy that is used to divert the attention of the federal government to go after trans people is time and energy that is not focused on addressing the cost of living for our constituents.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
• The ringleaders also paid truck drivers to divert specific merchandise from manufacturer warehouses to their home and an apartment in Fresh Meadows, officials said.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024