How to Use diversion in a Sentence

diversion

noun
  • 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
  • The project involves the diversion of a nullah which is a lifeline for the area.
    — Manish Chandra Mishra, Quartz, 10 June 2021
  • As of Wednesday evening, the diversion was still in place.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2021
  • If the Ryanair diversion is shown to be a ruse, that trust could erode not just over Belarus, but around the world.
    — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • The problem the Barataria diversion aims to address has been 150 years in the making.
    — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2021
  • 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 goal is to offer a high-end diversion, complete with Wi-Fi in the cabanas.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The court, with the boy’s parents’ consent, placed the teen into a diversion program.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Is this the light at the end of the tunnel for CDPR, or just another diversion?
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The Great Salt Lake hit a record low in 2022 as a result of drought, climate change and water diversions.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The diversion of the Yangtze River also has slowed the flow of the river and allowed pollutants and sludge to build over time.
    — Therese Shaheen, National Review, 7 June 2021
  • 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, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • On Tuesday, a judge placed the couple in a diversion program.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • The diversion program brings people to mental health and substance abuse care centers instead of the hospital or jail.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Officials noted that there were three flight diversions from Chicago into the Indianapolis airport due to the weather.
    — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025

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