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
• Need a diversion from packing up the skeletons, bats and witches hats?
  — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
• The packed house appeared unfazed by the short medical diversion.
  — Sasha Urban, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
• The ministry also sent out an order to announce revisions in the rates of the net present value that is levied for the diversion of forest lands.
  — Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2022
• 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
• In the recording, Croft floated the idea of using explosives as a diversion to distract police to grab Whitmer.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2022
• The most obvious is that the story was spun from the Russian government's propaganda mill as a diversion from the military crisis in Ukraine.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
• But an issue of some sort, either with the rocket or the capture mechanism on the pad, prompted flight controllers to order a diversion to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
• The intrigue: Atlanta plans to open a diversion center in the jail where people accused of low-level crimes or experiencing substance abuse issues can seek social services.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• He had been arrested in Jefferson County on a warrant for violating the terms of his pretrial diversion on a charge of flagrant non-support.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024