Sample sentences for DIVERSION

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1 —as in:
a diversion to draw troops away

Definition

a distraction — something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else

The attack on the capital was actually a diversion to draw troops away from the port city.

diversion = distraction (from something more important)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The snowstorm led to the diversion of 23 flights to another airport.

diversion = changing the course of something

When I need a break, I find detective novels are a good diversion.

diversion = form of entertainment

The shoplifter had an accomplice who created a diversion.

diversion = distraction

"ANY kind of diversion!" I say. "Just distract Mr. Rosa for five or ten seconds. That's all the time I'll need."
Lincoln Pierce -- Big Nate - In a Class by Himself

diversion = something to draw attention

"We just need a diversion," Tally said.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

diversion = distraction

Vera, her wits revived by the brandy, made a diversion by saying: "Where's the judge?"
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

diversion = something to change the subject

And I'd bet my broomstick he let that troll in, to make a diversion!
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

diversion = distraction

Bernard's questions made a diversion.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

diversion = distraction (something else for the mind to focus upon)

I'll create a diversion.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

diversion = distraction

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2 —as in:
a favorite diversion is reading

Definition

something done for entertainment

"Then," said he, "every man should have a diversion as well as a profession."
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country

diversion = something done for entertainment

Other Uses (with this meaning)

He was a year older than I, and I avoided him on principle: he enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

diversions = things done for fun

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

diversions = things done for fun

That explained blitzball, that explained the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that explained his insistence that I share all his diversions.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

diversions = things done for fun

Before we returned to Harvard, I convinced my parents to take a detour to Niagara Falls. The mood in the car was heavy, and at first I regretted having suggested the diversion, but the moment Dad saw the falls he was transformed, elated.
Tara Westover -- Educated

diversion = thing for entertainment

And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

diversion = something done for entertainment

Actually, I'm what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker — a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

diversion = thing for entertainment

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3 —as in:
diversion of flights

Definition

the act or instance of changing the direction of something or changing the use to which it is put; or a British term for detour (an alternate route due to a road closure)

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

diversion = changing the water flow

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4 —as in:
juvenile diversion program

Definition

in law: an alternative program in place of typical criminal sentencing—such as a drug rehabilitation program rather than felony imprisonment for a first-time offender

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