Sentence examples for divert himself from inspiring English sources

The other thing that Rawlings had brought to divert himself was a collected works of Shakespeare.

Did he ever bark out that immortal 'Suits you, sir!' line – just to divert himself?

To divert himself while playing in the foyer, he now & then persuaded his fellow musicians to join him in one of his own compositions.

Lethargic in temperament, lacking political insight, and therefore incapable of appreciating the need to compromise, Louis continued to divert himself by hunting and with his personal hobbies of making locks and doing masonry.

Perhaps he diverted himself with iconography.

The history of the avant-garde comes down to this: a boyish gimcracker diverting us by diverting himself.

Some traditionalists may see a risk for Mr. Cooper's news reputation in diverting himself into the more superficial fields of daytime talk.

Charlie occasionally grunts back a curt response, but mostly stares fixedly ahead as Rocco diverts himself by playing with his Ouija board.

A Connecticut friend was driving along the Boston Post Road with his six-year-old son who was diverting himself by peering into the rear-view mirror.

(In an article last year, Peter Schjeldahl, an art critic for The New Yorker, described him admiringly as "a boyish gimcracker diverting us by diverting himself").

This served to remind us of the early days of… A Connecticut friend was driving along the Boston Post Road with his six-year-old son who was diverting himself by peering into the rear-view mirror.