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Example sentences for: deflected

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Let us modify the device such that the cannonball, after hitting the paddle wheel and setting it spinning, is deflected downward onto the ground and digs a long shallow groove in the dirt, with high sides due to the displaced dirt.
"As the process enters a crucial phase, the Government believes that President Clinton will keep Mrs. Kennedy Smith on as Ambassador and will not be deflected by the attacks."
Lanny Davis, the closest thing to an official source who is talking, deflected the idea of an apology when quizzed about it.
A small skin incision was made in the knee and the patella deflected.
Cornell's boxes are like reliquaries infused with deflected eroticism and the magic of hopeless wishes.