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How to use diverted in a sentence

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Some trains were diverted into Liverpool Street calling at Stratford, while others terminated and started at West Ham or Barking.
The first part will involve northbound traffic being diverted from the Hopton roundabout through the Hopton Industrial Estate.
In the late 1970s, the water flowing from the thermal spring was diverted for the development of a spa.
Also, of course, grain prices will rise as cropland is diverted to growing corn for fuel.
Lorries, buses and wide vehicles will be diverted on to the Millbrook roundabout while the work is carried out.
Money diverted from food budgets to cover rental costs caused women and their families to go hungry.
By recycling these items they are diverted from landfill avoiding the associated environmental problems.
The point is that if that money were diverted into transport uses, taxation would have to be raised from other sources.
With the population surge, the springs were diverted to municipal uses and the streams dried up leaving once irrigated orchards as parched lands.
Taxes collected from the transporters should not be diverted for other purpose.
But the money was then diverted into his own building society account and used to fund his expensive lifestyle.
Precious health dollars have been diverted to pay the tax bill of a public trust.
Money could be diverted into areas where it could be put to better use, such as policing hard core drugs.
Spending on capital goods means that resources are diverted away from consumption and vice versa.
A mob of brumbies, which were considered a bigger nuisance, diverted the hunt and several of these animals were captured instead.
A 30 mph speed limit has been imposed and traffic diverted onto the northbound carriageway while the southbound carriageway is resurfaced.
Surrounding areas across south Manchester soon came to a standstill as diverted traffic clogged the streets.
Mr Hutton had suggested tunnelling through Bradford, but this would prove too costly, especially as Bradford Beck would have to be diverted.
Loaded with brand new Peugeot and Citroen cars bound for Scotland, the train was diverted into sidings at Oxenholme where it continued to burn.
This meant that Sonoran rivers, which originate in the eastern sierras, had to be diverted.
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Examples from Classical Literature
My roving excursion this day had fatigued my body, and diverted my imagination.
His reckless impulses and desires were bitted and diverted into accomplishment.
The expedition of the Allies to China to put down the boxer rebellion also diverted attention.
Before the budgeteer could precisely place it, his attention became diverted by something else, to return no more that evening.
Nature had meant him for a butcher, but, being a by-blow of a great house, a discerning patron had diverted him bishopward.
He then diverted Maximilian from his designs on Castile by humouring his hostility to Venice.
The sampan was reached and diverted just before she swung athwart our bows.
Nor was he ever diverted from his predilections by mere fashion or novelty.
You and yours are to find that I can be constant, and am not to be diverted from my end.
Farquhar diverted him from his regrets by asking him how they had made the capture.
It has also often occurred to me that the old formby Channel might also be diverted.
Nature's spectacularity diverted him, as if he had been a child, from his own affairs, which seemed to give him a dull pain.
Frederick drew a breath of relief, for she diverted stoss from his unsavoury theme.
Were too many ventilators to be placed near the hotter end of the sudatorium, this stream would be diverted.
The controversy was suddenly diverted into a new channel, by a misquotation.
The attention of the savages had been diverted from them by the mle on deck.
Raisky diverted his attention from these unsummoned apparitions, and looked attentively at the suffering woman before him.
Since the opening of the railway, trade has largely been diverted to Nagpur, and the garrison has recently been reduced.
I was much diverted with this Welsh derivation of wrexham, which I did not attempt to controvert.
The mouth of the yare has been, within the last five centuries, diverted about four miles to the south.
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