Definition: 1. Turn aside; turn away from. 2. Send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one. 3. Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion.
Use 'divert' in a sentence:
1. To do that, you have to drain the water from the land, move the water elsewhere, and divert the water sources such as rivers.
2. He instructed switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.
3. Late in life, Gatling did divert his attention to steam-powered ploughs.
4. Some want to divert aid money.
5. Markets might capture and divert floodwaters to Nevada.
6. They want to divert the attention of the people from the real issues.
7. Otherwise it will divert resources where they're needed.
8. For the French, it seems to have taken a movie to divert their sun-oriented gaze.
9. Many countries cannot afford to divert land away from food production.
10. Consumers don't have to divert a growing share of their incomes from spending.
11. Luckily, you can pull a lever and divert the trolley to another track.
12. Environmentalists say that diverting water from the river will lower the water table and dry out wells.
13. This will divert attention from the only leverage you have — your performance.
14. Time lay heavily on his hands, so he went to the cinema to divert himself.
15. A ditch diverted water from the stream into the fields.
16. Customers will only incur additional call charges if the call is diverted outside the UK.
17. She often diverts herself in reading novels.
18. Yet the wrangling over Darfur should not divert attention from southern Sudan.
19. I divert my sight by instinct.
20. Don't divert the subject into a side issue.
21. It was a witty and diverting programme.
22. The trucks were forced to divert to another road.
23. The theory inevitably diverts attention from the important issues.
24. They divert the course of a river.
25. The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.
26. Hungary wants a "Danube strategy" to divert EU money and attention to the river basin.
27. The government is planning to invest billions in a system of canals, pipelines and aqueducts to divert water from the soggy south to the parched north.
28. She insists on diverting to a village close to the airport.
29. The Foreign Office offered to pay the shipping line all the costs of diverting the ship to Bermuda.
30. While some Socialists did view price protests as a direct step toward socialism, most Socialists ultimately sought to divert the cost-of-living movement into alternative channels of protest.
31. A wave of deadly bombings has forced the United States to divert funds from reconstruction to security.
32. For the Prime Minister, externalising the problem would divert attention from his domestic troubles.
33. To prevent flooding, we shall have to divert the river from its course.
34. Competition can divert your trade to other markets.
35. Recent studies of ancient Maya water management have found that the urban architecture of some cities was used to divert rainfall runoff into gravity-fed systems of interconnected reservoirs.
36. He instructed the switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.
37. Egypt is building 20 new cities to divert people away from Cairo. It plans 45 more.
38. The President needed to divert attention away from his own economic record.
39. The little girl diverted the people at her mother's party with her funny sayings.
40. That background in the Mona Lisa is the same damn river he tried to divert.
41. The fund earmarked for capital construction is not to be diverted to any other purpose.
42. The government is trying to divert more public funds from west to east.
43. Japanese corporations have been turning away from production and have diverted into finance and real estate.
44. Even using a "hands-free" device can divert a driver's attention to an alarming extent.
45. We diverted a plane to rescue 100 passengers.
46. When they detect an extended dry period, they divert their metabolisms, producing sugars and certain stress-associated proteins and other materials in their tissues.
47. The river is diverted through the power station before discharging into the sea.
48. He whom riches and honours cannot corrupt nor poverty and obscurity divert, whom neither threats nor violence itself can bend& he it is that I call a great man.
49. It works in compression to divert the weight above it out to the sides, where the weight is borne by the vertical elements on either side of the arch.
50. Children are easily diverted.
51. During the strike, ambulances will be diverted to private hospitals.
52. The war diverted people's attention away from the economic situation.
