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to move apart; or be or become different- Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.Robert Frost
- The two paths diverge here
- ...my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.Clifford Stoll
- Their interests diverged
- the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- There was no divergence of method,F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams
- My mother said people feared the Divergent because we couldn't be controlled.Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- Two rabbis diverged in a yellow wood.Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
- Now this is where the stories offered by the boy and the State begin to diverge slightly.Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men
- ...and my mother warned me about, the danger of being Divergent.Veronica Roth -- Divergent
- The race divergence under the system of miseducation was fast getting wider.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- I was surprised to find just how much we did have in common, aside from our names, and how much our narratives intersected before they fatefully diverged.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- But we must not let the recollections of this good fellow cause us to diverge from the principal history.Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
- Roads diverge in every direction from the even and graceful bottoms of the valleys to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills.Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Pioneers
- My travelling instructions directed me to go to Carlisle, and then to diverge by a branch railway which ran in the direction of the coast.Collins, Wilkie -- The Woman in White
- At its highest point, the pass forked like a pair of tight pants into two diverging trails.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- "But mainly, Mr. MacLain, you should remember to keep off rich food," Miss Snowdie said, leading her husband down a divergent path.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- When the workingpeople began leaving their houses, the daybreak boys diverged, Mars Bar to the East End, Maniac to wherever.Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee
- Even though they've walked several steps down diverging paths, Barbara and Cedric talk regularly.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
diverge = move apart
diverging = moving apart
divergence = difference
divergent = people who are different
diverged = moved apart
diverge = to move apart; or be or become different
divergent = different
divergence = difference
diverged = became different
diverging = becoming different