Sample Sentences for
deflect
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    She deflected the blame onto someone else to avoid getting in trouble.
    deflected = turned aside
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    We kept inching backward, dodging acid splashes and deflecting snapping heads without cutting them off, but I knew we were only postponing our deaths.  (source)
    deflecting = turning away (turning aside from a fixed direction)
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    I brace myself to deflect his hit, but it doesn't come.†  (source)
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    Rudy shuffled in, fired the shot, and Liesel dived and somehow deflected it with her elbow.†  (source)
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    Thomas ducked toward the floor and reached up with his hands to deflect the blow.†  (source)
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    The way he focuses on it, deflecting Meredith and Rashmi's conversation, is ...purposeful.†  (source)
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    The orange vendor deflects this nonsense with a yawn.†  (source)
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    Both had lifted visors streaked with deflection scars and their faces were very hard.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    In the afternoon the returning prodigal made constant deflections from his course to see if by ascending some hillock he might not pierce the distance and catch a glimpse of his home.†  (source)
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    I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.†  (source)
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    The winging arrow stuck, undeflected, spattering blood on bronze.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeflected means not and reverses the meaning of deflected. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Here his character was firm and indeflectable.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indeflectable means not and reverses the meaning of deflectable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    He checked the next blow, spun away from the second, deflected the third.†  (source)
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