Sentence Examples

1. I had the good fortune to divert the emperor one day after a very extraordinary manner.
2. I wished to capture them and have them under my control long before the many warrior-monks and the three warrior-wizards realized these conflagrations were no accidents, but a planned ruse to divert their attentions elsewhere.
3. She had to say something, if only to distract him and divert his thoughts from the dangerous track they were following.
4. Instead I turned on the TV and channel-surfed, hoping it would divert my attention from the murder investigation.
5. They strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron.
6. Plots in fiction should be wedded to the understanding of the reader, and be constructed in such a way that, reconciling impossibilities, smoothing over difficulties, keeping the mind on the alert, they may surprise, interest, divert, and entertain, so that wonder and delight joined may keep pace one with the other all which he will fail to effect who shuns verisimilitude and truth to nature, wherein lies the perfection of writing.
7. A gallant knight shows to advantage bringing his lance to bear adroitly upon a fierce bull under the eyes of his sovereign, in the midst of a spacious plaza a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights show to advantage that entertain, divert, and, if we may say so, honour the courts of their princes by warlike exercises, or what resemble them but to greater advantage than all these does a knight-errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads, forests, and mountains, in quest of perilous adventures, bent on bringing them to a happy and successful issue, all to win a glorious and lasting renown.
8. The boy was right, but the thought of having to divert any focus at all to keeping the kid alive annoyed him to no end.
9. Longer in duration, if those who hunted us forced us to divert from our path and compelled us to take a more tortuous, but safer route.
10. 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 so on nodding acquiescence to him he asked them what they had seen or done.