Example sentences for: diverge

How can you use “diverge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Coyne and Orr remark that populations may diverge in male signals because of intrasexual selection (competition among males), and that female mate preference may follow.

  • Two parental sequences share a homologous region (a region in which the sequence is identical) and diverge in the nonhomologous flanking sequences.

  • Some analysts argued that the research supports two politically important theories: 1) Humans have had so little time to diverge genetically that the differences between human "races" are trivial, and 2) our common ancestors came from Africa (Cro-Magnons) and drove the Europeans (Neanderthals) to extinction.

  • Bearing in mind, then, that the stories told in court will almost certainly diverge from one another, the panel emphasized that a person should do whatever possible to obtain objective evidence to confirm his or her story.

  • Most of the time, two (or more) words that appear to be “pure” synonyms semantically tend to diverge in application or distribution (e.g.


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