DIVERSION in a Sentence

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Sorry, that was irreverent if you considered skiing is about the least diverse sport, especially your living in a ski town.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIVERSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diversion
 n.  act of turning aside; pastime; activity that relaxes or entertains
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  But she restrained herself and she found that twisting Yankee men around her finger was no more difficult than that same diversion had been with Southern men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  Only this was no diversion but a grim business.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  She longed to be to him something more than a piece of sentient prettiness, a passing diversion to his eye and brain; and the longing betrayed itself in her reply.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
5  Lord and master over all this scene, the captain stood erect on the ship's elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was full before him, and seemed merely contrived for his own individual diversion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
6  In the evening I used to prowl about, hunting for diversion.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
7  As their stay at Grand Isle drew near its close, she felt that she could not give too much time to a diversion which afforded her the only real pleasurable moments that she knew.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
8  He considered them bourgeois, and found more diversion at the club.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
9  You were intended to make a diversion in favor of Whiterside.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  The diversion accomplished the purpose.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  As soon as she supposed me absorbed in my occupation, she recommenced her silent weeping: it appeared, at present, her favourite diversion.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter; unless Linton make amends for other losses: and your provident parent appears to fancy he may.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  My walk home was lengthened by a diversion in the direction of the kirk.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
15  There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before the emperor and empress, and first minister, upon particular occasions.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  By passing both laws in temporal proximity to one another, Arizona has revealed itself to have great anxiety not merely about illegal immigration in this nation, but about diversity itself.
17  Canadian society allows for diversity, and in the evolution of our national aims it is a central feature.
18  High acidity and elevated levels of metals can seriously impair the ability of water bodies to support life, resulting in a decline in species diversity.
19  There is need for greater diversity and choice in education.
20  We have nothing against diversity; indeed, we want more of it.
21  The producer was under pressure to maintain a diversity in his output.
22  The exhibition is designed to reflect the diversity of the nation and its regions.
23  Conservationists are mostly wedded to preserving diversity in nature.
24  The organization promotes racial tolerance and unity in diversity.
25  Many employers seek diversity in their staffs.
26  The diverse patterns formed by their brightly colored wings have made butterfly watching a fairly popular hobby.
27  The professor suggested diverse ways of approaching the assignment and recommended that we choose one of them.
28  It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
29  Sorry, that was irreverent if you considered skiing is about the least diverse sport, especially your living in a ski town.
30  Students from countries as diverse as Colombia and Lithuania use Cambridge textbooks when they learn English.