How to Use diversion in a Sentence
diversion
noun- Sports provide him with a welcome diversion from the pressures of his job.
- Hiking is one of my favorite diversions.
- Our town offers few diversions.
- He created a diversion while his partner stole her pocketbook.
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Back then, just posting a sign next to a water diversion was enough to be considered a right, one which could still be honored now.
— Stephanie Elam, CNN, 10 July 2022 -
Just as Davidson may have been something of a diversion for Kardashian, so too was the pair a balm for our weary souls.
— Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022 -
The music was a spunky, flirtatious diversion: songs about hangovers, house parties, crushes.
— Hunter Harris, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022 -
The diversion of funds provides one reason Proposition 63 hasn’t fully lived up to its promise.
— Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2022 -
For comedian Matteo Lane, that diversion was in the form of the ubiquitous video game Fortnite.
— Malina Saval, Variety, 30 July 2022 -
When on-the-go or even at home, this reusable placemat featuring the map of the United States makes for a great diversion for the little one waiting for their meal.
— Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022 -
Unique covert taggants and inks can further add to the complexity of the security, so brands have complete control in the fight against counterfeit and diversion of products.
— Keith Goldstein, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 -
Both countries have benefited in economic terms from the trade diversion caused by Western sanctions against Russia.
— Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024 -
As part of the plea, the youth agreed to enter a diversion program for six to nine months.
— Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Sometimes your brain just gets tired and needs a rest — or at least a diversion.
— Deb Amlen, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022 -
The court, with the boy’s parents’ consent, placed the teen into a diversion program.
— cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023 -
Most do not attend school, and there are few diversions.
— Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 -
Dodge nosy questions about your love life with a clever diversion.
— Jenna Ryu, SELF, 31 July 2024 -
The crime may disappear into the ether, or the youth may be sent into diversion.
— Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024 -
There should be a greater focus on diversion and treatment, Biehl said.
— Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022 -
The teen had been referred to Beats Not Bullets by the city through a diversion program for young people, Beasley said.
— Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024 -
But in the 1960s, the diversion of yet more of the Amu Darya’s flow into the new Karakum Canal precipitated a tipping point.
— Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Cal Fire officials had said there was a spot fire that was about 30 to 40 acres across the diversion pool in the Lakeland Boulevard area.
— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024 -
Exercise on its own can be linked to GI woes due to jostling and the diversion of blood flow away from the gut (hello, runner’s trots).
— Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 Nov. 2023 -
There was diversion of methadone into the black market.
— Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023 -
The risk of the diversion of foreign aid in wartorn countries has long bedeviled the U.S. and other countries.
— T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024 -
Trump will not have the scope, so often exploited in the past, to create diversions from this drama.
— Time, 14 Aug. 2023 -
Who’s flying close to the north pole, which volcanos are causing diversions.
— Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023 -
In the end, his case was denied diversion into mental health court.
— Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024 -
Blackpool, a seaside resort town in Lancashire that was once something like the Atlantic City of England—a place for frothy diversions and bad behavior.
— Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024 -
The suit says the hospital failed to monitor medication administration procedures and prevent drug diversion by their employees, among other claims.
— CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024
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