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Example sentences for: divert

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Applesauce (an American variant is apple sass ), which has come to designate a `camouflage of flattery,' is excessively sweet, mushy, pulpy and insubstantial, and thrifty boarding houses serve an abundance of the stuff to divert awareness from the scarcity of more nourishing fare.
Creating a new domestic intelligence agency would divert attention of the officials most responsible for current counterterrorism efforts while the threat remains high.
Those politicians who have devoted their lives to exacerbating that burden--like Bob Dole and Bill Clinton--would prefer to divert your attention to relative nonissues like the deficit.
As long as members of Congress continue to divert attention from the fact that money flows in at the same rate that favors flow out, the televised "fight" over their fund-raising methodologies will allow them to pretend they're reforming the system.
Japan's tendency to poor-mouth its economy isn't entirely a plot to divert attention from its trade surplus--there's actually an element of truth to it.