Sample Sentences for

diversion

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

The shoplifter had an accomplice who created a diversion.

And I'd bet my broomstick he let that troll in, to make a diversion!  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

We create some big diversion to clear the ballroom—  (source) Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire, 2011

"ANY kind of diversion!" I say. "Just distract Mr. Rosa for five or ten seconds. That's all the time I'll need."  (source) Lincoln Pierce, Big Nate - In a Class by Himself, 2010

I've had plenty of diversions during leave —but leave comes once a year.†  (source) Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes, 2015

We believe the attack on the gas pipeline is a diversionary tactic.†  (source) David Baldacci, Zero Day, 2011

"We just need a diversion," Tally said.  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

I roamed the place, searching for stories or just diversions, just living.†  (source) Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin', 1997

Sophie was exhausted, but when she crawled out of the den into the garden a little later she thought Alberto would have been well pleased with her diversionary maneuvers.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

I'll create a diversion.  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

Both of the films were popular with the public, both found favor with the Politburo (which was eager to give the People some respite from the war years through suitably themed diversions), and our young starlet reaped the effortless rewards of fame.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

A diversionary landing on Saturday was supposed to put roughly 160 anti-Castro Cuban freedom fighters ashore near Guantanamo Bay, but was canceled due to the breakdown of a crucial boat.†  (source) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy, 2012

Even my test mission to track Day must've been a diversion to distract me while they tossed out any remaining evidence.  (source) Marie Lu, Legend, 2011

Playing Minecraft is my favorite diversion.

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.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

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.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

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.  (source) Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

He was a year older than I, and I avoided him on principle: he enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

She longed to be to him something more than a piece of sentient prettiness, a passing diversion to his eye and brain; and the longing betrayed itself in her reply.  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

That explained blitzball, that explained the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that explained his insistence that I share all his diversions.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

"Then," said he, "every man should have a diversion as well as a profession."  (source) Edward E. Hale, The Man Without a Country, 1863

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

She closed her eyes an instant, and the vacuous routine of the life she had chosen stretched before her like a long white road without dip or turning: it was true she was to roll over it in a carriage instead of trudging it on foot, but sometimes the pedestrian enjoys the diversion of a short cut which is denied to those on wheels.  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

The electronic signs assist with automated traffic diversion in event of an accident.

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.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996