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.
• The punter acted as if the snap went over his head to add a diversion.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Need a diversion from packing up the skeletons, bats and witches hats?
  — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
• 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
• If they are taken to jail, should they be charged or referred to diversion programs?
  — Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 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
• Probation or diversion would have been logical on the charge of buying a gun while suffering from a drug addiction.
  — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
• Having committed himself so completely to the pursuit of a solution and also having the courage and the integrity to allow that diversion to take place.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025