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 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, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The city could end up diverting up to 8.2 million gallons of lake water per day.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Civilian airports have been closed in Iran and flights from the Persian Gulf were diverted.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• Some of the floats, bands and balloons appeared to be diverted to avoid the protesters who had glued themselves to the pavement.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Humans in the past have tried to divert or even stop lava from advancing.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• But for much of her life, the water has been so heavily diverted that the riverbed in the city has usually sat dry.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• Dozens, maybe 100s, of vehicles were stuck in the backups in swirling snow as highway patrol tried to divert them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
• Welch diverted a large portion of the loan money for the personal benefit of the couple, according to court documents.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2025
• Those hotels have hospitality standards on par with many of the finest in the world, but no alcohol is served, with focus instead diverted to food, coffee, and experiences.
  — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2025