Sentence example with the word 'divert'

divert

absorb, call away, debase, deviate, diverge, hairpin, mismanage, prostitute, relax, tickle, warp

Definition v. turn aside

Last update: December 6, 2016


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A loud noise diverted everyone's attention from their work.   [verb]

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When people bring up negatives, you divert to positive.   [verb]

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They diverted the traffic because of the demonstration.   [verb]

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The idea is to divert attention away from this fact.   [Please select]

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I was exceedingly diverted with this journey.   [verb]

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Tracking back tends to divert attention to the edges of the screen.   [verb]

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The former was the tomahawk in its passage; the latter the arm that Magua darted forward to divert its aim.   [verb]

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Ashamed of his apprehensions, the young man turned toward the water, and strove to divert his attention to the mimic stars that dimly glimmered on its moving surface.   [verb]

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In that language he knew so well how to assume, he diverted his comrades from their instant purpose, and invited them to prolong the misery of their victims.   [verb]

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Pepys made allusions to an unhappy passion of his master and patron, Lord Sandwich, that had diverted his mind from public business, and was likely to bring him to disgrace.   [verb]

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These requests diverted the attention, at the same time that it roused fresh sympathy in the little girls--they all went into the sitting-room.   [verb]

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