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.
• 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 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
• 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
• And not to be overshadowed by all the outdoorsy diversions, art and culture abound in this upscale beach town.
  — Kara Franker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
• At the time, Hill was working in a diversion program with youth offenders, and Mack was assigned to a group home where some of those youths lived.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2024
• Others have suggested that this could be a diversion from the other side.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The diversion program could eventually lead to dismissal of the gun charge.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• That was only a diversion; Ezra’s real intent was to have the Purrgil grab Thrawn’s ship and teleport them… elsewhere.
  — William Goodman, Men's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• We were told in air only that a situation forced the diversion.
  — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• Handling the gun charge as a diversion case means Biden would not technically be pleading guilty to that crime.
  — Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• But, even at their worst, those diversions were simply dull—this, on the other hand, feels like a serious lapse of judgement.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
• The diversion program would compel the unhoused person to take the shelter option.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
• What to know about the controversial diversion project.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• Of the remaining cases, eight teens were placed in diversion programs, which are designed to keep them from having a record.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• The other objection had to do with the diversion program on the gun charge, under which the judge would play a role in determining whether Mr. Biden was meeting the terms of the deal.
  — Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Biden agreed to a pretrial diversion program, which could eventually lead to the dismissal of the charge.
  — USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• Under the House bill, those children would attend diversion programs on their first offense for a firearm or car theft charge.
  — Hannah Gaskill The Baltimore Sun (tns), arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• Back then, diversions from infrastructure were all the rage.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• The agreement would have allowed Hunter Biden to avoid prison time in exchange for a guilty plea on misdemeanor tax charges and a diversion agreement on one felony gun charge.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• With the escalation of the fire, the state ultimately approved the diversion anyway.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024