Example sentences for: diverted

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

  • Investigators are examining whether mobsters diverted funds--including foreign aid--out of the country through an offshore network built by a former International Monetary Fund official.

  • Used in another context, it is perfectly harmless: waters of a river, for instance, may be diverted to prevent flooding.

  • Like other muscle hijackers, he reportedly set out for Chechnya but diverted to Afghanistan.

  • A British flotilla, diverted from the Caribbean, sailed up the Mississippi with some 10,000 first-class troops.

  • Our ideology of "blood," like blood itself, is too fluid, too changeable, and too easily diverted to be remade by lovers alone.


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