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Example sentences for "divert"

Lexicographically close words:
diversities; diversity; diversly; diversos; diversum; diverted; diverticula; diverticulum; diverting; divertisement
  1. To divert her from such painful remarks I asked if the Yankees had molested them since they had burned the house.

  2. She would sit by my bedside for hours reading or talking to me, seeking to divert me by all means possible from gloomy thoughts or sad reflections.

  3. While she was affable and pleasant as possible, I could not shake off a silent moodiness, and she, to divert me, and to relieve our rather dull conversation, brought me a casket of jewels that belonged to her mother.

  4. For all this I had made extra resolves of diligence, and had promised father that nothing should divert me from intense application to my books.

  5. That which has no magnetic action to direct or divert anything exterior to it.

  6. If there be none, all studiously strive to conceal the exhibition of the least concern on this account, and seek to divert their thoughts by conversation quite foreign to the subject.

  7. Jean Oullier, he knew, was far too wary to act heedlessly; he must have some good reason for his present behavior; no doubt he was attracting the enemy's attention to himself in order to divert it from the rest of the party.

  8. We ought surely to humble Spain, before we presume to attack France; and we may attack France with better prospects of success, when we have no other enemy to divert our attention, or divide our forces.

  9. Darena's arrival always brought animation to the hotel de Grandvilain; and, while seeking to divert Cherubin, he availed himself of the acquaintance to turn Monsieur Poterne's talents to account.

  10. To divert attention, possibly, Dwight suddenly turned to the girls, and inspected them with apparent curiosity.

  11. As for this young man, who has so lately escaped from the nursery, he may be allowed to divert himself.

  12. Beyond this, ennui drove her from her cabin, where she had for society only her father who did not much divert her.

  13. He promised, in return, to go and see her every day, and play airs on the flute to divert her.

  14. Of the same sort were the pleasantries with which, on the morning of his execution, he with fine consideration for others strove to divert attention from the cruelty of his doom.

  15. The language of Boone is: "We held a treaty within sixty yards of the garrison on purpose to divert them from a breach of honor, as we could not avoid suspicion of the savages.

  16. He continued for some time to divert the attention of these simple-minded men, by allusions to past events with which they were familiar, and by talking of his tobacco, his mode of curing it, and promising them an abundant supply.

  17. That little pink thing with the blinking eyes will divert some of the love and some of the attention, and the very trouble which its coming has caused will set its mother's heart yearning over it.

  18. She was clever enough to know that a pretty woman should concentrate attention upon herself, and a plain one divert it to her adornments.

  19. He succeeded, too, and that very soon, and so completely as to divert pretty nearly all that had belonged to me into his own pocket; so craftily too, that the law was powerless to touch him.

  20. And indeed here comes that which will assuredly divert all attention from it, or any other matter.

  21. So by way of obscuring the trail I hid away the money, thinking, like the fool I was, that that would divert suspicion from myself, that no one would suspect me of killing a man for the sake of a few hundred dollars.

  22. To serve God with the best of your care and understanding, and to be just and true in your dealings, is the short sum of your duty, and will be the more strictly required of you, because nothing lieth in the way to divert you from it.

  23. Anything would answer the purpose to divert her mind from this terrible subject.

  24. All the time he managed to eat in a noiseless, well-bred way about three times as much as any one else, and contrived to divert to his own plate the nice cuts and choice corners of the poultry and saddle of mutton.

  25. The scheme made it necessary to divert the course of the Ribble below the town, and the prediction of the eminent engineer, Sir John Coode, that there would be no port in the country with so free a run to the sea, has been fulfilled.

  26. The town also retains some fairly interesting houses, though neither these nor the twelve parish churches are likely to divert the visitors' attention from the cathedral.

  27. It was accordingly resolved to divert part of the proceeds of the undertaking in favour of a worthy playwright, the author of Paul Pry.

  28. So shalt thou gain two dirhams and more, for every one; and thou shalt solace and divert thyself by seeing Cairo and the Nile.

  29. It is the more astonishing to me," Agathemer went on, "that you have never seen Hedulio divert her attention and entice her away from her victim, even when she is within leaping distance and ready for her final spring.

  30. There was so much here below to divert her attention.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.