All 10 Uses of
divert
in
War and Peace
- Prince Andrew rode up and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle.†
Chpt 2
- He advised me not to avoid intercourse with the Petersburg Brothers, but to take up only second-grade posts in the lodge, to try, while diverting the Brothers from pride, to turn them toward the true path self-knowledge and self-perfecting.†
Chpt 6
- It will divert your thoughts," she added, addressing Natasha.†
Chpt 8 *
- But the farther he went and the more his attention was diverted by the ever-increasing crowds moving toward the Kremlin, the less he remembered to walk with the sedateness and deliberation of a man.†
Chpt 9
- One of the old men nearest to him looked round, but his attention was immediately diverted by an exclamation at the other side of the table.†
Chpt 9
- She did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation as soon as her aunt mentioned Andrew.†
Chpt 12
- The arrival of Dolokhov diverted Petya's attention from the drummer boy, to whom Denisov had had some mutton and vodka given, and whom he had had dressed in a Russian coat so that he might be kept with their band and not sent away with the other prisoners.†
Chpt 14
- Nicholas sighed, bit his mustache, and laid out the cards for a patience, trying to divert his mother's attention to another topic.†
Chpt 15
- "—yet it was evident that she was not pleased by Pierre's arrival at that moment when it diverted her attention from the unfinished game.†
Chpt 15
- But Natasha, knowing all her husband's ways and ideas, saw that he had long been wishing but had been unable to divert the conversation to another channel and express his own deeply felt idea for the sake of which he had gone to Petersburg to consult with his new friend Prince Theodore, and she helped him by asking how his affairs with Prince Theodore had gone.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(divert as in: divert the traffic or funds) to change the direction of something, or the purpose for which it is used