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.
• The punter acted as if the snap went over his head to add a diversion.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 9 Nov. 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
• The project involves the diversion of a nullah which is a lifeline for the area.
  — Manish Chandra Mishra, Quartz, 10 June 2021
• As of Wednesday evening, the diversion was still in place.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2021
• If the Ryanair diversion is shown to be a ruse, that trust could erode not just over Belarus, but around the world.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• The problem the Barataria diversion aims to address has been 150 years in the making.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2021
• Sometimes your brain just gets tired and needs a rest — or at least a diversion.
  — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Some see it as a painless swap, others a diversion from the spirit of the process.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• Neighbors took the kid and his younger brother to a park for a game of baseball as a diversion.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
• The goal is to offer a high-end diversion, complete with Wi-Fi in the cabanas.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• The court, with the boy’s parents’ consent, placed the teen into a diversion program.
  — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
• Is this the light at the end of the tunnel for CDPR, or just another diversion?
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The Great Salt Lake hit a record low in 2022 as a result of drought, climate change and water diversions.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
• Most do not attend school, and there are few diversions.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• First were the advance guard of the Capitol riot: a diversion in lipstick and heels.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
• Dodge nosy questions about your love life with a clever diversion.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 31 July 2024
• The diversion of the Yangtze River also has slowed the flow of the river and allowed pollutants and sludge to build over time.
  — Therese Shaheen, National Review, 7 June 2021
• More to the point, they were ordered not to provide passengers with the reason for the diversion.
  — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2021
• The home game was the kind of diversion the players needed after the past seven days, in which some players saw the flames come close to their homes.
  — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 14 Jan. 2025
• Or feel free to skip the diversion and come back later (marked on your map for simple retrieval).
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2020
• The girl is in a diversion program through the county and the case worker was notified.
  — cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
• Riley doused the vehicles with gasoline and set the truck on fire as a diversion.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Ominous clouds prompted a diversion to the Trango Towers, a rampart of granite spires esteemed by big-wall climbers.
  — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
• Further, any industry that needs access to that much water has to come, because the Great Lakes Compact ensures that large-scale, long-range diversions of water outside the basin won't happen.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025