How to Use diverge in a Sentence

diverge

verb

• A prism causes rays of light to diverge.
• They were close friends in college, but after graduation, their lives diverged.
• But in an old city (think Rome or Paris), things diverge.
  — Liran Tancman, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb jelly.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
• On the brink of adolescence, Ian’s and Roland’s paths diverge.
  — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
• The fields may have since diverged, but the overlap still makes perfect sense.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
• Over the years, their paths diverge as Bruno remains faithful to the mountain while Pietro comes and goes from the city.
  — Vulture, 4 Jan. 2023
• Nailed to a tree were signs that announced the diverging paths, Swoop and Bypass.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• To be sure, Healey and Baker diverge in a variety of ways, too.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• Two roads diverged his freshman year; Bass chose the one paved in loyalty to his coach and team.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
• The diverging plans are no surprise, as the Prince and Princess of Wales have a rugby rivalry!
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• Both promise to get thousands of people off the city’s streets, but their plans diverge widely in scale and method.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• Sharks and rays Rays and skates (which at first glance look like stingrays) diverged from the shark family some 200 million years ago.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• As the Supreme Court has shifted to the right in recent years, states have begun to diverge on parental-involvement laws.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 29 Nov. 2022
• Experts diverge on whether the sanctions have had a strong enough impact on Russia.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• But while the fact patterns diverge a bit, the Holmes hearing could serve as an important precedent for the tech sector and Bankman-Fried.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Item 1 of 7 High streets across the country are facing diverging fortunes.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• His latest film at first appears to diverge from recent work.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
• Her sister, Chantel, soon followed and both enrolled in college, but their paths diverged from there.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Over the years, their paths will diverge and recross as each struggles with the lingering effects of trauma.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• At the same time, the artists’ styles diverged in important ways, and strikingly so in their depiction of women.
  — Farah Peterson, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the wake of the pandemic, companies have diverged in their approaches to remote work.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• Loriod’s choice to record pieces like Schoenberg’s Op. 29 Suite shows how her taste diverged from her husband’s.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Iowa’s Supreme Court expressly diverged from the federal high court in a 2022 ruling.
  — Hannah Fingerhut, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2024
• But these groups, which turned out more than 500 people at a rally last week in Rockville, diverge from progressives on this issue.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• Studies show that human and chimpanzee lice diverged sometime around 5.5 million years ago, roughly the same era as the lineages of their hosts.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• But these probes sharply diverge in terms of what’s known about the conduct at issue as well as key practical logistics.
  — Zoe Tillman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• Beyond that, though, the powertrains, performance, and purpose of the ZR-1 and Zora diverge.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2023
• The Dali appeared to be following the same pattern but clearly diverged moments before the collision with the bridge, causing the collapse, the records show.
  — Lou Robinson, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• From this point, their fates diverge, at least temporarily.
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024