How to Use deviate in a Sentence

deviate

1 of 2 verb

• No one will deviate from this—and no one will be able to.
  — Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
• No one will deviate from this—and no one will be able to.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
• No one will deviate from this—and no one will be able to.
  — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2025
• When others around them deviate, things go wrong.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
• The front office didn’t deviate from that script.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
• Did the driver deviate from their route?
  — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Over that distance the car should only deviate about one inch from that line.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• But the ways the chairs are used deviates widely in practice.
  — al, 16 Mar. 2023
• Both ladies are proof that there’s no need to deviate from your go-to ensembles.
  — Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
• There’s been times when he’s deviated from such plans in the past for that reason.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Every once in a while, a trend will deviate from its norm, but as time goes on, that trend will regress to its mean.
  — Tony Jones, New York Times, 5 May 2026
• The city would need to deviate from the current plan to lease or sell its block of properties.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The judges judge in relation to that baseline score and can’t deviate too far from it.
  — Zack Pierce, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• Some researchers are now deviating from the focus of the past few years.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• The show is deviating from that plot, although by how much is unclear.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Verdugo can sometimes deviate from his approach and try to launch the ball.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The game doesn't deviate much from this formula.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 May 2026
• The game doesn't deviate much from this formula.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026
• Crypto couldn’t exist without an urge to deviate from the norm.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• Better, for me, is to deviate from the classic and use bourbon instead of rye.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 July 2022
• Your schedule is created six months to a year in advance, and you’re taught not to deviate from it.
  — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
• The drive to tame inflation could set a higher bar for the Fed to deviate from its plans to raise rates.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• The crew planned to deviate after crossing the mountains.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
• Swift rarely deviates from her signature shade of dark blonde, while Gomez is more of a color chameleon.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
• Since then, Davidson hasn’t deviated from his plan.
  — Scott Powers, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2026
• The Reds, entrenched in rebuilding mode, did not deviate from their plan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• But critics also pointed out the ways in which the film deviated from real life.
  — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
• Quite the opposite, in fact, which doesn’t deviate much from his usual nature.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Nov. 2025
• Anomalies are things that deviate from what is normal and expected.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
• As the sun and Chiron clash, deviating from the status quo seems like too big a risk.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023

deviate

2 of 2 noun

• There’s no reason to trade any prospects at this point or deviate from the long-term plan with some rash move.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021
• How much does this show deviate from Goodspeed as usual?
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
• As a result, many of the structures deviate from current building standards.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• Any designs that deviate will have to go through additional hurdles to get approved.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
• And so the question is, in the case, did the image and the artwork that Warhol created, did that deviate enough?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
• Patrick Gilham was charged with burglary and unlawful deviate conduct.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2022
• Even on the first day his teenage years officially ended, Maxey didn’t deviate from this routine.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• Will Trump deviate beyond his usual script to discuss the events of January 6?
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 May 2022
• How is voting supposed to be conducted in nursing homes and how did elections in 2020 deviate from that?
  — Molly Beck and Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
• For the spring 2021 season, Lemaire and Tran didn’t deviate from their formula.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Mar. 2021
• Rather than drastically deviate from your norm, try keeping your caffeine intake consistent.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 16 Apr. 2023
• Boards, schools, and even teachers can choose to do the bare minimum or deviate from script, which means what students learn is wildly different from school to school, and even classroom to classroom.
  — Carli Whitwell, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• In various performances of the play over the years, the actors have been known deviate from the script by having conversations about the material with each other or the audience.
  — Randall G. Mielke, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2021
• The marks on the Krapina 3 Neandertal skull deviate from all the other examples of bone modification at the site and are unique in the fossil record.
  — David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• These upstarts deviate from the traditional manufacturing narrative in olive oil that often involves a plot of land that’s been in the family for generations.
  — Flora Tsapovksy, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2021
• If passed, Proposition N would allow residents to vote on developments that deviate from the city’s legally allowed plans in density or zoning.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• Thomas faces preliminary charges of rape with deadly force, rape with deadly weapon, and criminal deviate conduct, IMPD said.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2018
• Never does anybody in the film deviate from their pre-ordained archetype; never does Kafka, Holland’s invention, deviate from Kafka, the legend.
  — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
• Manager Dave Roberts — despite criticism — didn’t deviate from giving Báez the ball in important situations.
  — Jorge Castillo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• After submitting a plea agreement, Riley was sentenced to seven years for involuntary manslaughter and 31 years for criminal deviate conduct.
  — Ruth Ann Krause, Post-Tribune, 11 July 2017
• Yet the Brookhaven experiment and the latest results coming from the G-2 experiment at Fermilab deviate from this prediction.
  — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
• The track falls under a new rule that sets a separate coefficient to tracks whose stream counts on a particular platform deviate significantly from the average balance of the overall market due to measures promoted by said streaming service.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 31 May 2022
• More recent research developments in CAR design deviate from this foundational model to finetune precision and function.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• However, issues with AI implementation complexity deviate one's attention from the actual problem of unfairness in society.
  — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• But the philosophy of the Living Constitution affords unelected Justices the ability to offer interpretations of Constitutional or statutory law that deviate from its text and original meaning.
  — Tod Worner, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020