How to Use divert/distract attention in a Sentence

divert/distract attention

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• Don’t try to make excuses or divert attention away from the issue.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Critics could also accuse him of trying to use the crisis to divert attention from his domestic woes.
  — Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• His presence on the PP will divert attention from Larkin and elevate the whole first unit.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
• Washington says the Kremlin is just trying to divert attention from its crimes in Ukraine.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• The only thing that could divert attention at that point is if another superstar announced her new album and dropped a pair of records on the same night.
  — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 12 Feb. 2024
• The covers helped identify the band, but in a way that was a little bit different — trying to divert attention away from ourselves.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
• The balloons appeared to be decoy targets meant to divert attention and waste ammunition, the statement said.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• But extremists in the pro-Russia camp distract attention from people like Vera.
  — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• The opposition says the mayor’s arrest is an attempt to divert attention from the country’s economic woes.
  — CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• And the equity market, despite its volatility, continued to divert attention away from gold.
  — Royston Wild, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• If the underlying agenda is to highlight a specific topic, briefly state your facts and divert attention to a different topic.
  — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• The swap may have been an effort by Putin’s government to divert attention from Russia’s flailing war efforts in Ukraine.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• During the high-profile trial, state prosecutors argued that years of lies and theft were about to catch up to Murdaugh and the murders were a way to divert attention.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the latest media reports as a bid to divert attention.
  — Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Ad hominim – attacking the person (not the issue) in order to divert attention to another topic and not deal with the original one.
  — Christine Comaford, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Critics say the Saudi government’s support of esports is meant to divert attention away from its record of domestic repression.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
• Instead, the conversation is destined to divert attention away from Matt’s relationships and eat up screen time that could go to one-on-one dates and tender moments.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2021
• The Houthis are a mere distraction to divert attention and military resources, whereas Russia and Iran are the main concern.
  — Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, The Hill, 20 Mar. 2025
• The announcement is likely to provoke push back from human rights orgs, who accuse the country of investing in sports and entertainment to divert attention away from a poor human rights track record.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 July 2024
• Right about then, the Academy solons were probably wishing for something, anything, to distract attention from the Disney imbroglio.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
• Some voices on the left are saying DEI was never much more than a tool for corporations to distract attention from anti-union activity.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
• Russian soldiers and bombs are no different from their propaganda weapons, which may not kill people directly, but justify these atrocities or divert attention and shift the focus from the main thing.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2022
• Many of the people pointing to cloud seeding are also climate change deniers who are trying to divert attention from what’s really happening, Mann and other scientists said.
  — Brittany Peterson, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2024
• But the developing situation in Ukraine is likely to distract attention from Biden’s pick, and some had speculated the president might even reschedule it.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
• Human rights groups and advocates have accused Saudi Arabia of heavily investing in sports and hosting major sporting events as a way to divert attention from human rights abuse.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• These ruses were successful enough that Hitler considered the Normandy invasion, as it was initiated, was actually a ploy to divert attention from Calais.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
• She was also charged for the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger, which prosecutors allege was part of a plot to divert attention away from her and back to Russell in his wife's death.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• Harold Stolper, who studies fare evasion enforcement and policing at Columbia University, said the offense has been a way to divert attention from financial crises and blame problems on those who don’t pay.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• Advocates for the homeless describe the rulings from Boise and Grants Pass as narrow and limited, and say their impact has been exaggerated by cities seeking to divert attention from their own failings.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• The Ukrainian government rejected the proposal immediately, calling it an attempt by Putin to divert attention from the summit in the Swiss mountains.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2024