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divert as in:  divert the traffic or funds

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  • Traffic was diverted to another road because of the accident.
    diverted = sent in a different location
  • Flights were diverted from Denver to Colorado Springs because of the weather.
    diverted = sent to a different location
  • The ambulance was diverted to another hospital because of overcrowding in the emergency room at the closest one.
  • Gasoline tax revenues were diverted from transportation to the general fund.
    diverted = used for another purpose
  • Corn was diverted for production of ethanol.
  • It was the reward of two hours of walking aimlessly around a hardware store to divert suspicion.   (source)
    divert = turn away
  • Both street and air traffic had been diverted from the usually choked avenue, and the media was thronged like a busy parade across the wide street.   (source)
    diverted = turned in a different direction
  • Juan Tomas went out among the neighbours to divert their suspicions, and he gave them theories and ideas of what had happened to Kino and to Juana and to the baby.   (source)
    divert = turn in a different direction
  • The noise was unbelievable, yet I seemed to be the only person who heard it, who couldn't divert her attention from the rustle of turning pages and the scratch of pencils on paper.   (source)
  • People later said that some of this money had been diverted to finance a plot to bomb planes traveling from Britain to the US.   (source)
    diverted = put to another use than that originally intended
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  • For more than two years the canal inadvertently diverted virtually all of the river's prodigious flow into the Salton sink.   (source)
    diverted = changed the direction of
  • What if another Griever got Alby after I diverted the one chasing me?   (source)
    diverted = turned in a different direction
  • Wooden sawhorses blocked the road at each end of the Radley lot, straw was put down on the sidewalk, traffic was diverted to the back street.   (source)
    diverted = turned (in a different direction)
  • The princess diverted the flames to either side of her and, wielding the white crystal scepter, scattered the jabberwocky into countless particles of energy.   (source)
    diverted = changed the direction of
  • He diverted the waterfall straight into the giant's face.   (source)
  • We merely want to divert the bus from its course for a few minutes.   (source)
    divert = change the direction
  • If neither one gets through, we have shots farther back which can be diverted--for example easy to shift targets among Delaware-Bay-Chesapeake-Bay group.   (source)
    diverted = put to another use than that originally intended
  • ...and wishing, though it were only for a second, to divert the vision's stony gaze from himself.   (source)
    divert = turn
  • Admiration was the universal sentiment, though some objected that the reply to "Is it a bear?" ought to have been "Yes;" inasmuch as an answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts from Mr. Scrooge, supposing they had ever had any tendency that way.   (source)
    diverted = turned
  • But I endeavoured to divert him from this design, by many arguments drawn from the topics of policy as well as justice;   (source)
    divert = turn (change direction of)
  • This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over.   (source)
    diverted = re-routed (moved)
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divert as in:  divert her attention

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  • I tried to divert her attention.
    divert = distract or turn
  • But may I not venture to suggest that you will find my idea of sport more diverting than Ivan's?   (source)
    diverting = entertaining
  • The boys I find not nearly so diverting.   (source)
  • No one was diverted from the issue by this try at a funny French pronunciation.   (source)
    diverted = distracted
  • Before she could ask what he meant, she was diverted by the sight of Nat Eaton swinging along the deck in their direction.   (source)
  • Montag had only a glimpse, before Faber, seeing Montag's attention diverted, turned quickly and shut the bedroom door and stood holding the knob with a trembling hand.   (source)
  • "Ooh, look at that," she said, pointing at a woman wiggling as she walked so as to keep a large hoop swinging round and round her waist.
    "That looks diverting."   (source)
    diverting = entertaining
  • I have explained that you can weaken his prayers by diverting his attention from...   (source)
    diverting = distracting
  • "Second," he said loudly, ignoring me, "try to divert them by mentioning anything about your therapist."   (source)
    divert = distract
  • In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month.   (source)
    diverted = distracted
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  • Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.   (source)
  • Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.   (source)
    divert = distract or entertain
  • She had set off the fireworks in the elevator to divert suspicion from the real bomber.   (source)
    divert = distract
  • It was only a tiny disturbance anyway--not strong enough to divert her from the ambition welling in her now:   (source)
  • I understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of their coming to divert if possible the thoughts of the unhappy husband and wife from each other and from themselves.   (source)
  • Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects.   (source)
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  • Brought me up, I corrected, to divert Richard's attention away from the thought of Laura.†   (source)
  • As soon as the train passed and the State Patrol cruiser diverted onto a side street, Edgar jumped into the back seat, and for the rest of the drive he'd held Tinder and Baboo in down-stays, ducking and hoping that Essay, up front with Henry, would look unremarkable.†   (source)
  • It was open and unfinished—the tiny trickle of water that was supposed to be diverted from the White River was instead dripping down into it, two stories below us.†   (source)
  • The software for accomplishing these is still being developed, but these 'miracles' will create a mood sufficient to divert human scientific thought onto the wrong path.†   (source)
  • A Middle Eastern group trying to claim responsibility for something beyond their scope, making noise, diverting us from where we should be focusing.†   (source)
  • When Sofia had selected the composition, the Count had attempted to signal his concerns diplomatically, by referring to the piece as "pleasant" and "quite diverting"; and then he had kept his peace.†   (source)
  • He was only too pleased to be diverted by the hilarious anecdotes his father's comrade related about his five-year-old grandson, Rudi.†   (source)
  • As Woody got closer, his attention was diverted from Wes's left hand to his right, where he held a long-bladed knife.†   (source)
  • But that evening, with Will's words still echoing around my head, I found myself diverting into the library.†   (source)
  • He squirmed and kicked in his father's arms, called for his sister, until his attention was diverted by an organ-grinder's monkey across the street.†   (source)
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  • Turning now to Sophie, he gently took her hand, bowing his head slightly, breathing lightly on her fingers, and diverting his eyes.†   (source)
  • Thomas, when he should've been wettin' his pants, took control, defied all laws of physics and gravity to get Alby up onto that wall, diverted the Grievers away from him, beat one off, found—†   (source)
  • Bagman opened his mouth to ask Harry something, but Percy diverted him.†   (source)
  • Etienne diverts himself with fantasies of escape.†   (source)
  • He took advantage of Miss Borrows's willingness to be diverted from the subjects of Grammar and Composition to the subject of anything else at all to ask her about money—how exactly it worked, how one used it to get things one wanted.†   (source)
  • Lawton had effectively rebuilt his case around the surviving pieces of physical evidence, diverting attention from the embarrassment of the bagged hands.†   (source)
  • I watched him until he crossed in front of Aspen, and then my attention was diverted.†   (source)
  • He hoped that the elements would not divert the jurors from the crucial and difficult matters at hand.†   (source)
  • The evidence will show that when he arrived at the school, he set up this bomb in Matt Royston's car to divert attention away from himself.†   (source)
  • Who cares if he "knew"—exactly, or inexactly—that money raised by secret arms sales to Iran was being diverted to the support of the Nicaraguan rebels?†   (source)
  • I'm terrified of what I saw happen today and how it'll affect me the nights that you aren't there to divert my thoughts.†   (source)
  • "You see," Mr. Benedict began again, "although most people care about the truth, they can nonetheless — under certain circumstances, and given proper persuasion — be diverted from it.†   (source)
  • The war's been intense lately, and with several decades of infrastructure funding diverted to supplying the warfront, I don't know if these buildings would hold up well in another earthquake.†   (source)
  • He wants you to divert the quest to this mountain, right?†   (source)
  • It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it.†   (source)
  • The dough wasn't yet over the top of the pan where she'd put it to rest, but it was an ideal pretext to divert Chencha's attention onto another topic.†   (source)
  • The android's light dimmed as its power source was diverted.†   (source)
  • They had to put their hands over their mouths when they spoke, to divert their polluted breath away from those whom they addressed.†   (source)
  • The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.†   (source)
  • Their train had been diverted to Auschwitz.†   (source)
  • In my fever haze I tried, unsuccessfully, to amuse or at least divert myself with thoughts of how very likely he was to show up at just the moment you didn't expect him.†   (source)
  • There was talk of sending you to another district to divert the Capitol's attention while the rescue takes place.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Six has done something to divert its attention.†   (source)
  • He was diverted from his discomfort by a commotion in the hall.†   (source)
  • Meggie quickly lowered her head, and before the Magpie could give this observation more thought Fenoglio diverted her attention.†   (source)
  • I'm grateful for his attempt to divert everyone's attention from me, but it doesn't work.†   (source)
  • Up ahead the road was barricaded and a police officer was diverting traffic away from the hotel.†   (source)
  • I remembered something and dug into my pocket, glad for an excuse to divert the conversation.†   (source)
  • "I know you like to gamble," Mama squabbles, diverting attention by pretending our real predicament is her naughty husband.†   (source)
  • When Laura pleads with her mother to cancel the party because of the carter's death, Mrs. Sheridan diverts her with a gift of a new hat.†   (source)
  • My lord, the guns could only have come from someone with sufficient authority to divert them and prevent their destruction.†   (source)
  • But Nick and Josh's entry diverted Perry's attention.†   (source)
  • We made the illegal trip at night and without headlights: the food had been diverted from a shipment headed for Germany.†   (source)
  • Into the restaurant they'll run screaming, the poor fox running for his life but the monkeys all too easily diverted by the sight of some fresh fruit.†   (source)
  • They had been flying against bad headwinds most of the way, the weather over Denver had worsened suddenly and unexpectedly, and now it was just a little late to divert for someplace where the weather was better.†   (source)
  • So the old man stood silent for a bit and the officer let him, as cars were diverted and told to go some other way, and as rich neighbors who had bought their properties more recently sat at their front windows and stared, and in the end the old man asked how he could help.†   (source)
  • Wow, he's like a crazy roommate," Clary observed, momentarily diverted.†   (source)
  • Black eyes, wild with their fierce craving for my death, watched for the moment when my protector's attention would be diverted.†   (source)
  • Coach O had made him start Michael Oher; but in the middle of the second quarter, when Coach O's attention was diverted, he'd have an upperclassman tap Michael on the shoulder and quietly inform him he was being replaced.†   (source)
  • Finally, this could be an attempt to provoke or divert us, drawing our attention to this while they are preparing to spring a surprise somewhere else.†   (source)
  • I tried to divert the conversation away from Zhou Xiaoying.†   (source)
  • Hiro raises the tip and slaps at the spear with the side of the blade, diverting it just enough; it goes into a slow sideways spin, the point missing Hiro just barely and entangling itself in a vine on Hiro's right.†   (source)
  • From the factory the ladies would move on to the tearoom on the Plaza de Armas, where they would stop for tea and pastry and discuss the progress of their campaign, not for a moment letting this frivolous distraction divert them from their flaming ideals.†   (source)
  • I knew my direction—I wanted to be a doctor, and nothing would divert me or stand in the way.†   (source)
  • Plus you are diverting them.†   (source)
  • They weren't sure whether to believe him—hut they wanted to, Palmer could tell—and suddenly he realized he had stumbled onto a way to divert attention from Nipper.†   (source)
  • And I wish to be diverted while you're clearing out that room and studying its secrets for me," the Baron rumbled.†   (source)
  • To divert him, I asked a question that I needed answered anyway.†   (source)
  • This present trip represents, after all, a rare opportunity for me to savour to the full the many splendours of the English countryside, and I know I shall greatly regret it later if I allow myself to become unduly diverted.†   (source)
  • Other McDonald's executives opposed the idea, worried that Western World would divert funds from the restaurant business and lose millions.†   (source)
  • Glad to be diverted from having to talk about my own horrid parental issues, I looked up, smiling, at the sound of Sarah's tentative, nervous voice.†   (source)
  • She first put a catheter through the urethra into the bladder to divert the urine away from the fistula to allow the wet, macerated tissues to dry and heal.†   (source)
  • Just before it reached the coast, it bumped against a rocky spur of the foothills and was diverted into the Hephestial range itself.†   (source)
  • Duntz, not to be diverted, reminds him, "Hickock had the knife.†   (source)
  • Sir Stephan galloped off and Uaaxee hurried away, diverted by new guests.†   (source)
  • Cedric looks at him blankly, all energy diverted to internal processing: Covering.†   (source)
  • Newt had not expected the jump and lost both stirrups, but fortunately diverted the heifers so that they turned back into the main herd.†   (source)
  • At last their teeth were on edge, and the boys diverted themselves by pelting the girls with the grapes.†   (source)
  • Johnnie wished she could think of something pleasant to say to the poor thing, when her attention was diverted by the old man once more addressing herself.†   (source)
  • He cajoled the children, diverted them, a master of that kind of thing, a superb actor.†   (source)
  • To divert the enemy and drown out the noise of the work parties, Washington planned to precede the operation with night barrages of artillery fire from Roxbury, Cobble Hill, and Lechmere Point, where a number of the guns from Ticonderoga had been newly emplaced.†   (source)
  • After all, I suppose it did take a lot of courage to go over that target a second time with no other planes around to divert the antiaircraft fire.†   (source)
  • The emigrants confused the gods by diverting their curses, misleading them with crooked streets and false names.†   (source)
  • Many works now hanging in museums are clever forgeries-the stolen paintings in the newspapers are merely to divert Rowan's attention from other thefts that have gone undetected.... There are whispers of a matchless child-a child whose arrival they have foreseen and whose help they require to free the Demon.†   (source)
  • Traffic was diverted to a side street, and when the taxi turned, I saw Mahtob's school bus ahead of us.†   (source)
  • That was surprising at her age, but Theon found it diverting.†   (source)
  • I said rather mildly that most of the women were really bored and perhaps not so well educated and that they did indeed divert themselves with foolish things.†   (source)
  • Our attention was diverted by the swoosh of a long black limousine turning into the resort's pebbly driveway.†   (source)
  • At least half a century old, the house was single storied with a tin roof; without gutters to divert runoff, the rain of a thousand storms had streaked the white paint with gray, On the porch were two weathered rockers angled toward each other.†   (source)
  • To divert suspicion from me.†   (source)
  • But if he's wrong, then maybe we can divert his attentions away from the battle long enough to gain an advantage.†   (source)
  • I told Elinor that I would go, since I needed some useful occupation to divert my mind.†   (source)
  • She diverted her stare and walked on as if she'd passed nothing more than a curious-looking dog on the street.†   (source)
  • And so ships were diverted to the high-profile but strategically dubious mission of bombing the enemy's homeland.†   (source)
  • Jacob diverted his gaze to the floor.†   (source)
  • From this height, nurturing life and prosperity in each isolated settlement seemed simply a matter of drawing straight lines to divert water.†   (source)
  • We paid the money to him by means of a shortfall deposit into one account, the surplus diverted blindly into another.†   (source)
  • I was anxious not to be diverted from my talks with the government, so I was pleased with his diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Angel yelled as he diverted down a narrow street on a shortcut back to 2a.†   (source)
  • We could divert enough capsules to move them all in twenty hours—dump them into Novylen and encourage half of them to go on to L-City.†   (source)
  • Street traffic, such as it was in this area, had been diverted.†   (source)
  • Charlie found events in Athens more interesting once he discovered that the town was in the process of diverting its river.†   (source)
  • They had diverted the stream for their gardens, and they had a sweeping view of the valley.†   (source)
  • I was weak with sorrow, and too many times in the past I'd let myself be taken in—diverted, influenced, convinced—by Snow Flower.†   (source)
  • He would succeed in the same way that a river always reaches the sea no matter what tries to dam or divert it.†   (source)
  • Traffic will be diverted.†   (source)
  • She diverted her thoughts to me.†   (source)
  • At the very last moment, Heafstaag diverted the axe, its blade whistling within a hair's breadth of the southerner's throat.†   (source)
  • Diverted, Mercy slipped one hand into a baker's quilted mitten.†   (source)
  • Before I can fully absorb the humiliation of that thought, she diverts my attention.†   (source)
  • lie had a short time to divert a possible catastrophe.†   (source)
  • She would quickly divert them into the entrance of the frightening maze in the Nuwara Eliya Park and leave them there, lost, while she went off to steal flowers.†   (source)
  • If Old Chao was trying to divert her attention from his foot, he'd succeeded.†   (source)
  • "If anybody else mentions chicken soup to me just once more—" Zooey's attention, however, had been diverted.†   (source)
  • I'd take all the money we're sending to the Middle East, where we're trying to pay people to be our friends, and divert it to Canada and earmark it to help raise ducks.†   (source)
  • If corruption can be proved, the psychology of human nature says that the other Senators will want to divert the public resentment from themselves.†   (source)
  • Every aircraft had been diverted from major airports and those that had the fuel had been ordered to circle until they had to land.†   (source)
  • Once he looked up and saw me watching him, but I quickly diverted my eyes to a point above his gaze, as though I were engaged in some indissoluble dilemma of the law myself.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless I did occasionally try to divert him by offering demonstrations of some of my scientific equipment.†   (source)
  • Existence becomes a grinding effort, guided by belly-hunger and the almost desperate need to divert awareness from the squalors to the pleasures, to lose oneself in sex or drink or dope or gut-religion or gluttony or the incoherence of falsity; and in some instances in the higher pleasures of music, art, literature, though these usually deepen perceptions rather than dull them, and can be unbearable; they present a world that is ordered, sane, disciplined to felicity, and the contrast of that world to theirs increases the pain of theirs.†   (source)
  • It served as a good fog, though-it diverted their attention from mischief they might have been doing, and since it did happen to take as a teaching, their efforts against it served to arouse some anti-Deicrat sentiment.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances, how could even the most committed racists among the faculty be diverted by the Professor's cunning dialectics?†   (source)
  • HELEN feels her bonnet, shakes her head darkly, and tugs to get it off KATE retains it with one hand, diverts HELEN by opening her other hand under her nose.†   (source)
  • PLANE NOT DIVERTED TO CUBA.†   (source)
  • But all that vast transformation diverted you from the truth, and therefore helped to serve our purpose.†   (source)
  • Quite often the flood of history is undammed or diverted by the character and actions of one man.†   (source)
  • The bush boy refused to be diverted.†   (source)
  • His group was to be sent, like the one preceding it, to dig trenches on the Archangel front, but was diverted on its way and sent east through Moscow.†   (source)
  • He could not see her feet; she behaved a little like a wind-up toy on wheels, rolling into the corners and edges of objects and being diverted and sent on, but never out of the parlor.†   (source)
  • But Calhoun, who once told a friend: "When I have made up my mind, it is not in the power of man to divert me," would not back down.†   (source)
  • If I know suspicion is directed against myself, I can divert it.†   (source)
  • And that's pretty ingenious, to divert water from the gutter to her room.†   (source)
  • You're making history while trying to divert attention.†   (source)
  • During the days he diverted himself with this pleasant foolishness.†   (source)
  • Real training meant watching, listening, diverting a dog's exuberance, not suppressing it.†   (source)
  • Their attention was diverted when Brom groaned and rolled onto his side.†   (source)
  • He respectfully diverted his eyes from the box and tried to figure out his next move.†   (source)
  • You diverted the guns, you planned that mob, with Jen Shinnan.†   (source)
  • We must divert all our power to keeping down the Serpent.†   (source)
  • Since becoming an officer on nuclear submarines he had learned a much more diverting game.†   (source)
  • This would only complicate his life, divert him in a time when he must concentrate on our survival.†   (source)
  • Mark James stands at the front of the crowd, unable to divert his gaze away from it.†   (source)
  • Luckily Artemis's attention was diverted by activity in the avenue.†   (source)
  • It became a habit, using Dorothy to divert attention from himself and his house.†   (source)
  • To divert ourselves, Mate and I began moving the contents of our old purses into our new ones.†   (source)
  • I turned to Irena and Aleksandr, trying to divert attention away from Sarah.†   (source)
  • Yes, and I'm the smoke-and-mirror act diverting their attention while he comes up with a plan.†   (source)
  • Tie picks up his cup and diverts his eyes from mine.†   (source)
  • —and Bangladesh will be hit hard if China diverts the Brahmaputra.†   (source)
  • Don't try to divert my attention by trying to make a simple matter appear mysterious.†   (source)
  • She sought to divert him, lowered her hands and said: "We'll find a place among the Fremen?†   (source)
  • They but diverted it to give us time to save the equipment.†   (source)
  • I spoke quickly again to divert myself from the bleak memories.†   (source)
  • "What?" asked Gates, his attention diverted from the page.†   (source)
  • Roger, an officer I knew only marginally, was diverting traffic.†   (source)
  • This is a game to him, mildly diverting.†   (source)
  • He personally saw to it that the Navy planes were diverted before they caused any casualties.†   (source)
  • It was really diverting to see sailors and apples tumbling from the trees together.†   (source)
  • Hamilton, for his part, had no intention of diverting votes from Adams this time around.†   (source)
  • He seemed ready to accuse me of J~ying, but I diverted his attention.†   (source)
  • His grin faded and he diverted his eyes.†   (source)
  • Their chambers lie beyond this place, where the aqueduct's water was diverted for the games.†   (source)
  • And even if we could divert it, somehow, it would overheat the ship.†   (source)
  • Her attention was diverted from them by the appearance of Johnnie herself just inside a window.†   (source)
  • I was halfway home before I realized Dorothy had diverted me from asking her out.†   (source)
  • The drow was hoping to distract and anger the wizard to divert his fury away from the battlefield.†   (source)
  • Luke diverted his eyes to the mural of the sea on my wall.†   (source)
  • I wasn't trying to change the subject, Mr. Conklin, only to divert it momentarily to make a point.†   (source)
  • David listened, but his attention was diverted by the high-pitched whine of the DC-4's engines.†   (source)
  • If I divert my focus and energies to oppose Prusias ...†   (source)
  • He quickly diverted the discussion back to Rachelle.†   (source)
  • Even if we diverted the canals, they would still have several springs and wells inside the city.†   (source)
  • He had been watching Clara and didn't enjoy having to divert his attention to a wiggly baby.†   (source)
  • Her attention was momentarily diverted when she observed several of the boys limping.†   (source)
  • Daenerys Targaryen is no silly child to be diverted by japes and tumbles.†   (source)
  • A call from within the cave diverted the cook's attention.†   (source)
  • Finally we diverted to a side area for prayer.†   (source)
  • The two kings eyed each other sternly, neither blinking or diverting his glance for even a moment.†   (source)
  • We have been determined not to be diverted from our central concerns by mere irritants and fanatics.†   (source)
  • I did not and I diverted my eyes about the room.†   (source)
  • Men were sent to meet the fugitives and to divert them to a village on the river Chilimka.†   (source)
  • Thinking to divert Nathan again, she called, "It's wonderful about your experiment, darling.†   (source)
  • Nathan went on and on divertingly about such matters.†   (source)
  • She turned to me, as if she had become diverted from her remembrance.†   (source)
  • In front of us, the river plunged into a massive pit, like an asteroid had punched a hole in the earth and diverted the water straight down.†   (source)
  • Finally, trying to divert his thoughts from Murtagh, he asked,Who do you think has the means to take control of the Varden now that Ajihad and the Twins are gone?†   (source)
  • I also left room for the possibility that they had adapted to this dynamic out of necessity, the quiet daughter eclipsed by the attention-diverting self-absorbed mother routine, that Madaline's narcissism was perhaps an act of kindness, of maternal protectiveness.†   (source)
  • If someone approaches her—or Aro, as she is always close beside him in a hostile situation—they find themselves...diverted.†   (source)
  • Harry looked up, diverted.†   (source)
  • Langdon, his concentration having been masterfully diverted, tried to counter, but the pipe felt like a tree trunk in his hands.†   (source)
  • I divert my gaze out the driver's-side window and press the automatic unlock button, focusing on the injured garden gnome, who is staring back at me with his smug little grin.†   (source)
  • "But that murder was in the newspapers," said the Prime Minister, momentarily diverted from his anger.†   (source)
  • Voldemort was now dueling McGonagall, Slughorn, Kingsley all at once, and there was a cold hatred in his face as they wove and ducked around him, unable to finish him — Bellatrix was still fighting too, fifty yards away from Voldemort, and like her master she dueled three at once: Hermione, Ginny and Luna, all battling their hardest, but Bellatrix was equal to them, and Harry's attention was diverted as a Killing Curse shot so close to Ginny that she missed death by an inch — He changed course, running at Bellatrix rather than Voldemort, but before he had gone a few steps he was knocked sideways.†   (source)
  • She diverted her thoughts from hospitals and special units and thought instead about the fact that she hadn't heard Tariq called by his full name since the two of them had enrolled in a Farsi winter course years back.†   (source)
  • When creating a new Burbclave, TMAWH Development Corporation will chop down any mountain ranges and divert the course of any mighty rivers that threaten to interrupt this street plan-ergonomically designed to encourage driving safety.†   (source)
  • As FOND AS MY dad was of Boris, I was constantly trying to divert his attention from the fact that Boris had basically moved into the house with us—which wasn't that difficult, as between the gambling and the drugs my dad was so distracted that he might not have noticed if I'd brought a bobcat to live in the upstairs bedroom.†   (source)
  • I was totally diverted.†   (source)
  • I knew you were , ' , in trouble when the snow started coming down, but long before that he had stopped in the Boulderado bar and tipped George twenty bucks to provide him with a second bottle of Dom, and he had drunk it rolling up I-70 into the Rockies under a sky the color of gunmetal, and somewhere east of the Eisenhower Tunnel he had diverted from the turnpike because the roads were bare and dry, the storm was sliding off to the south, what the hay, and also the goddam tunnel made him nervous.†   (source)
  • Fifteen years ago, the government had set aside all this money to clean up the White River by building more sewage retention pools and expanding this tunnel system that runs underneath downtown, diverting a creek called Pogue's Run.†   (source)
  • In his faded tartan bathrobe and brown leather slippers with the rundown heels, his hair all in sleep corkscrews and Alfalfa cowlicks, he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.†   (source)
  • The New York Times appears to have reduced the Iran-contra affair to the single issue of whether or not President Reagan "knew" that profits from the secret arms sales to Iran were being diverted to support the Nicaraguan contras.†   (source)
  • They denounced him for his "Parliamentary Cretinism" and accused him of "providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People's Consciousness and diverting them from the Revolution."†   (source)
  • Besides, there was plenty of work to divert Roran's attention; he convinced himself that strengthening the fortifications around Carvahall was his most important task at the moment.†   (source)
  • So you're saying that in the first months of the annexation, Jen Shinnan found some Radchaai official willing to divert crates full of weapons so that five years later she could start trouble between the upper and lower city.†   (source)
  • Diverting the magic, he scryed in quick succession Teirm-shocked to see that the city's wharfs had been destroyed-Therinsford, Garrow's old farm, and then Carvahall, whereupon Eragon uttered a wounded cry.†   (source)
  • If I had to be philosophical, at least I'd been diverted from my dope mission: hadn't OD'd, wasn't vomiting in some garbage can, hadn't been ripped off or run in for trying to buy from an undercover cop "Potter."†   (source)
  • Resources are diverted.†   (source)
  • While Hawat's occupied with the Lady Jessica, we'll divert him further with uprisings in a few garrison towns and the like.†   (source)
  • I'll pull your walls down, and divert the Tumblestone over the ruins By the time I'm done no man will ever know that a castle once stood here.†   (source)
  • Among my enemies, there are some who bore me, others who divert me, and still others who can even amuse me.†   (source)
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