How to Use diversion in a Sentence

diversion

noun
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  • Sports provide him with a welcome diversion from the pressures of his job.
  • Hiking is one of my favorite diversions.
  • Our town offers few diversions.
  • He created a diversion while his partner stole her pocketbook.
  • The punter acted as if the snap went over his head to add a diversion.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • As part of the plea, the youth agreed to enter a diversion program for six to nine months.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes your brain just gets tired and needs a rest — or at least a diversion.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Some see it as a painless swap, others a diversion from the spirit of the process.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The court, with the boy’s parents’ consent, placed the teen into a diversion program.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Most do not attend school, and there are few diversions.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Dodge nosy questions about your love life with a clever diversion.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 31 July 2024
  • More to the point, they were ordered not to provide passengers with the reason for the diversion.
    — Noel Oman, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The home game was the kind of diversion the players needed after the past seven days, in which some players saw the flames come close to their homes.
    — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Riley doused the vehicles with gasoline and set the truck on fire as a diversion.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The crime may disappear into the ether, or the youth may be sent into diversion.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
  • There should be a greater focus on diversion and treatment, Biehl said.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The teen had been referred to Beats Not Bullets by the city through a diversion program for young people, Beasley said.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
  • But in the 1960s, the diversion of yet more of the Amu Darya’s flow into the new Karakum Canal precipitated a tipping point.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Cal Fire officials had said there was a spot fire that was about 30 to 40 acres across the diversion pool in the Lakeland Boulevard area.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
  • Exercise on its own can be linked to GI woes due to jostling and the diversion of blood flow away from the gut (hello, runner’s trots).
    — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 Nov. 2023
  • There was diversion of methadone into the black market.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But a judge in 2019 denied a request for mental health diversion after learning the facts of the case.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Need a diversion from packing up the skeletons, bats and witches hats?
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The risk of the diversion of foreign aid in wartorn countries has long bedeviled the U.S. and other countries.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Just as Davidson may have been something of a diversion for Kardashian, so too was the pair a balm for our weary souls.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Because of that, the launch of VB Body, a new line of jersey separates and dresses, might seem like a diversion.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Trump will not have the scope, so often exploited in the past, to create diversions from this drama.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Who’s flying close to the north pole, which volcanos are causing diversions.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The diversion of vessels has been one of the biggest shipping upheavals in recent times.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, Wilson focused on New York’s diversion courts.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025

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