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 crew was able to restore the flow of fuel and the flight was diverted to Portland, Oregon.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• In six of those cases, airplanes had to divert to avoid hitting the drone, Vinograd said.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The city could end up diverting up to 8.2 million gallons of lake water per day.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Sandbags can help divert water if your yard is prone to flooding.
  — NBC News, 19 Aug. 2023
• But that screen in your hand isn’t just diverting your attention.
  — Markham Heid, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• About 2,000 were diverted, meaning CAM helped the household find a safe place to stay outside of shelters.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• The simple action of taking a photo can divert our attention and take us out of the moment.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Pumps were deployed to divert water around the dam, and the structure ultimately held.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Water that once flowed south from the lake through the Everglades and into the Gulf was diverted into thousands of canals to dry the land for farming.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• As a result, available ROVs were diverted to the area to begin searching.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 22 June 2023
• Under the law, the state can divert up to $90 million of lottery revenue annually to pay back the $1.2 billion in bonds.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Using the threat of warnings and citations, the city sought to divert the teens from busy intersections to services and jobs.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• The flight was diverted to Amarillo, where the FBI and local police were waiting.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Israel has barred entry of fuel since the start of the war, saying it would be diverted by Hamas for military means.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 18 Nov. 2023
• The goal is to divert more traffic away from the town of Cooper Landing, where the existing highway is winding, low-speed and close to the Kenai River.
  — Elizabeth Earl For The Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The plane dropped survival packages and a radio onto the island while the Oliver Henry was diverted to pick them up.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Greig, who was born and raised in Lahaina, doesn’t return to his hometown much these days — only to check his mail, which has been diverted to a post office.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
• The 44-year-old pilot was charged in Oregon because the flight was diverted to Portland, where he was arrested.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• To meet demand, water has been diverted from the major reservoirs.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Traffic will be diverted onto U.S. 30 westbound just prior to the bridge.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
• But getting there makes for a fairly diverting series of melees in the name of child protection, with services rendered by a tough-love mom who does it all.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• Jim Harbaugh's brother John is expected to be a bit late after his flight was diverted to Austin.
  — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
• The flight was forced to divert to Portland, Oregon, where the suspect was taken into custody by Port of Portland police, the agency said in a statement.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• Sitting in the backseat of the car, Brogdon told the officer to divert from their route to the hospital and instead go to a nearby fire station that had recently opened.
  — The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024