Sentence examples for was diverted around from inspiring English sources

In the 1860s and '70s the highly polluted Senne was diverted around the western edge of the historic city.

Karen Fredette, a race spokeswoman, said that the race was diverted around the block where the device was found but that the finish was not changed.

One loquacious guide on a tour outside the city told us of a fairway on the outskirts of Reykjavik that was diverted around a pair of large boulders believed to be the homestead of a troll who did not want his habitat disturbed by modernity.

A walk in the park The Jardines del Turia, Valencia's main park, has quite a story – it is the dry bed of the Turia, the flood-prone river that, after one tantrum too many in 1957, was diverted around the city.

Tracer tests indicate that hydraulic performance deteriorated: the flow distribution was heterogeneous and under the influence of interfacial cementation a large portion of water was diverted around the Fe0 and transported outside the PRB.

Flight 923 was diverted arounded 8 a.m. after the airline received a phone call about a passenger that might have a bomb, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Warm anticyclones move slowly, and cyclones are diverted around their periphery.

Moreover, the Guadalquivir River, which had been diverted around the city for centuries, was brought back into its original riverbed.

Until the bridge reopened, Empire Service trains were diverted around the bridge on Metro-North tracks to Grand Central.

The modern Guadalquivir has been diverted around the city, leaving the ancient waterway separating the city center from Triana as only a wide, currentless ditch.

If airspace in western England, Ireland and the Atlantic is affected by the smoke plume transatlantic flights in and out of Heathrow could suffer delays later this week as planes are diverted around the most dense parts of the cloud.