How to Use divert in a Sentence

divert

verb

• The stream was diverted toward the farmland.
• Police diverted traffic to a side street.
• He lied to divert attention from the real situation.
• They're only proposing the law to divert attention from important issues.
• They were charged with illegally diverting public funds for private use.
• The bill would divert those funds to the RDA for 10 years.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2022
• The co-pilot was forced to divert and land the plane in Athens, Greece.
  — Escher Walcott, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
• Some friends had to sit and watch it with me: I would not be diverted.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
• The device is then deployed, which acts like a stent to divert blood away from the aneurysm.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• The pilot of the plane declared an emergency and was forced to divert the flight back to Bradley.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 29 May 2025
• The metaverse is stage two of that plan that's already been forced to divert from its roadmap.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The big picture: The change is part of a wider city effort to divert refuse from landfills.
  — Asher Price, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
• Partnerships like this help raise awareness about the process and the need to divert waste.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
• Democrats hope the focus on Trump will divert the scrutiny of Biden.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 June 2022
• The crew was able to restore the flow of fuel and the flight was diverted to Portland, Oregon.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• And once more, people are asking if anything can be done to stop or divert the flow.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
• And once more, people are asking if anything can be done to stop or divert the flow.
  — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 1 Dec. 2022
• And once more, people are asking if anything can be done to stop or divert the flow.
  — Audrey McAvoy, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
• Detour signs will be in place to divert motorists around the street closure.
  — Erin Hardy, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• She was forced to divert to Gander, Newfoundland, due to the closure of U.S. airspace.
  — Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
• As the state closes in on a deadline to require cities to divert more waste to compost, change doesn’t come cheap.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2022
• In six of those cases, airplanes had to divert to avoid hitting the drone, Vinograd said.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The concept is to divert profit from the scalpers and place it back in the pockets of the artist and Ticketmaster itself.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 27 July 2022
• Three planes were diverted away from Kazan while the restrictions were in place, the airport said.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2025
• Barkalow’s goal, according to the complaint, was to divert Confirmed360 clients to his own business.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
• When the Reds went 99 innings without holding a lead, Bell didn’t divert from his approach with the bullpen.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 6 May 2022
• Just the talk of a tax is apt to divert funds into non-real estate assets.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The city could end up diverting up to 8.2 million gallons of lake water per day.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• At its core, the proposal would divert a baseline level of tax revenue generated by the teams toward payment of bonds to finance new or upgraded stadiums.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2025
• Signed into law in 2016, the bill mandated a gradual increase in the amount of organic waste that must be diverted away from landfills to sites where the waste could be treated and composted, thus reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025