Sentence examples for made a diversion from inspiring English sources
"made a diversion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to intentionally redirect attention or change the course of something. Example: The magician made a diversion with a flashy display of lights, allowing his assistant to slip the rabbit into the hat unnoticed.
In February 1945, President Roosevelt – on his way home from the "Big Three" Yalta summit with Stalin and Churchill – made a diversion which alarmed his British allies.
I tilt obsessively at the windmills of Darfur because, quite simply, its people haunt me: the young woman who deliberately made a diversion of herself so the janjaweed would gang-rape her and miss her little sister running in the opposite direction; the man whose eyes were gouged out with a bayonet; the group of women beaten with their own babies until the children were dead.
A second man, who did not wish to be named, said he had been travelling towards North Farm Industrial Estate when he was forced to make a diversion.
Setting off again we make a diversion to the Baines baobabs, a group of 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldby treess byines in 1862.
Pilgrims travelling from Rome to Santiago de Compostela would make a diversion to stay at the Domaine de Laval de Nize, in the Hérault region of France, by the Parc Naturel Régional de Haut-Languedoc.
Next they receive emergency signals from Icarus I. Should they make a diversion for humanitarian reasons or would it make sense to get hold of the earlier ship's payload to make a bigger bang for the world's bucks?
Even now, sometimes, this man who does not easily give in to the sentimental makes a diversion when he is driving to or from the Emirates and stops outside the old East Stand facade on Avenell Road to remember.
…from Educating Yorkshire Suggested by Kennedytown Let's make a diversion from the fictional characters and add to our list "the real thing, Mr. Burton on Educating Yorkshire", as suggested by Kennedytown.
Meander along the Mekong River through traditional villages in Kompong Cham and Kratie before making a diversion east to the elevated provinces of Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri.
On May 19, the Iraqis were about to drive west through Nablus toward Tulkarm, and asked the Syrians to make a diversion in the Degania area to protect their right flank.
His objective was twofold: he wanted to prevent the Israelis from strengthening Jerusalem and from supplying the city, and he wanted to "make a diversion" to keep the strengths of the Haganah far from the city, warranting to the Arabs the control of East Jerusalem.
