Sentence examples for diversion one from inspiring English sources

"Goon Squad" began as a diversion; one day, she saw a wallet peeking out of a handbag in a hotel bathroom, practically begging to be stolen, and wondered what it would be like to try on the perspective of a thief.

"They are meant as a visual diversion, one which appeals in its otherworldliness".

Of 23 citations to primary data (not counting multiple citations from one proposal to a single paper) addressing the claim's validity, 20 were made to supportive primary data (19 supportive citations and one neutral citation), two were instances of citation diversion (one paper 77 again cited for supporting the claim when it weakens it), and one was made to critical content.

The term "natural disaster," Jelani Cobb wrote last week, can function as a "a linguistic diversion, one that carries a hint of absolution.

History, social science, and common sense have made it increasingly difficult not to consider the term "natural disaster" as a linguistic diversion, one that carries a hint of absolution.

Behind him stood the music hall, and the garrulous double-act of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and other staples of popular diversion; one band he joined in the sixties, the Lower Third, used to perform "Chim Chim Cher-ee," from "Mary Poppins," and "Modern Love" is not so modern that it can't afford to glance back, in the exhortation "Get me to the church on time," to "My Fair Lady".

What's more, there were days when general rules were suspended and residents could seek different diversions: on one occasion, Wetering was startled, in others' company, to find himself at a gay brothel where some girls, installed to fool the police, were so delighted to find that they were unexpectedly required that he had to be retrieved by taxi next day.

It is a prevalent fantasy among writers that if only one had a quiet place to work, equally free of onerous responsibilities and of pleasurable diversions, one would be able to bring forth the book that it is otherwise impossible to produce.

"This is incredibly lucrative," said Marc N. Garber, an assistant United States attorney in Las Vegas, who has prosecuted many cases involving illegal drug diversion, including one against Bindley Western Industries, one of the five largest national drug wholesalers.

It's an unexpected musical diversion, but one that Harris sticks with for much of his second album.

It's a welcome diversion, and one that will provide, for some, additional interest and challenge after the main game is finished.