Sentence examples for deflect conversation from inspiring English sources

Prior to any real investigation happening, it is used to deflect conversation.

For families like mine, whether in small towns like St. Stephen, South Carolina, or major cities like Chicago where the presence of black and brown death is rarely mourned by the public and routinely used as a way to deflect conversations about ill-advised police shootings and brutality such deaths are never a small thing, even when we know some of those involved hadn't been living upright lives.

Mrs. Schultz deflected conversation about Harding's long string of mistresses.

Lydia rolls her buggy eyes skyward and deflects conversation to the social event of the season -- the CUT Fitness dinner.

He quickly deflects conversations from topics he finds uncomfortable, and he avoids confrontation, expressing agreement whenever he finds it possible to do so.

He perks up any time he can deflect the conversation to an anecdote about someone else in his life.

Can you deflect the conversation to other topics if you can't get them to stop talking about each other?

"He would deflect any conversation about his past by either asking another question or by saying something totally random," he remembered.

If pleasantries turn malicious, try subtly to deflect the conversation onto safer ground and be aware of when a piece of news is suitable office currency and when it is better kept secret.

When a user suggested that Kanye's insults were simply an attempt to deflect the conversation away from the illegal downloading allegations, Deadmau5 concurred, saying that all he was seeing was "an attempt to derail it".

But asked why she was having such trouble gaining traction in a state with a huge margin of Democratic voters, she tried to deflect the conversation, arguing that the governor was more interested in running for president than being governor, and was more media star than true leader.