We found 11 examples of how to use divert in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 11 of 11.
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| 1. | She could divert herself from the anxieties. | |
| 2. | It was not done by a German. The A, if you noticed, was printed somewhat after the German fashion. Now a real German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator who overdid his part. It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel. | |
| 3. | Don't let them divert you from your purposes. | |
| 4. | Sami tried to divert suspicion. | |
| 5. | I tried to divert their attention without success. | |
| 6. | The producers of Spanish strawberries divert water from natural reserves. | |
| 7. | In addition to informing, news can also divert. | |
| 8. | The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you. | |
| 9. | Conspiracy theories were made up by the CIA to divert people's attention away from capitalism. | |
| 10. | Last year, Trump was criticized for declaring a national emergency in order to divert military funds to finance construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. | |
| 11. | Interstellar, as opposed to interplanetary, travel was quite impossible until the advent of sub-atomic power. Fortunately this source of power was seldom gained until late in a world's development, when mentality was mature enough to wield this most dangerous of all physical instruments without inevitable disaster. Disasters, however, did occur. Several worlds were accidentally blown to pieces. In others civilization was temporarily destroyed. Sooner or later, however, most of the minded worlds tamed this formidable djin, and set it to work upon a titanic scale, not only in industry, but in such great enterprises as the alteration of planetary orbits for the improvement of climate. This dangerous and delicate process was effected by firing a gigantic sub-atomic rocket-apparatus at such times and places that the recoil would gradually accumulate to divert the planet's course in the desired direction. |