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.
• But when used correctly, the bags are highly effective at diverting water from buildings and other areas.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
• These missiles are scarce and expensive, and diverting one from the campaign against Ukraine’s cities suggests this was a high priority target.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• Wang created the software code that allowed Alameda to divert FTX customer funds.
  — Ken Sweet, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
• The swap may have been an effort by Putin’s government to divert attention from Russia’s flailing war efforts in Ukraine.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• To deal with droughts, municipalities like some in California have allowed farmers to divert so much water from rivers that stretches in urban areas have dried up.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 21 Dec. 2022
• The devastation from the floodwaters forced Germany to divert thousands of troops to the repair efforts over the months that followed and provided a huge boost to British morale.
  — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• This would allow marketing to divert their attention without penalization and sales to get critical conversion assets like case studies and product demos.
  — Kelly Grover, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024