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
• The captain was then forced to divert the plane to Austin where she was removed.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2021
• 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
• If the spacecraft fails to release the capsule, the team will divert it away from Earth and try again in 2025.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 11 May 2021
• 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
• The mine also had to divert resources to the fire, according to Diskin.
  — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• Even Tahoe Truckee still diverts some of its chicken to a processor to make mandarin orange chicken.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 25 Aug. 2025
• The move helped to reduce costs and speed up deliveries, but the in-person experience for shoppers suffered as Target diverted store workers to fulfilling orders placed online, according to some analysts.
  — Anne D’innocenzio, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025