"divert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

divert verbo

divert + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 41

divert attention • divert water • divert resources • divert money • divert funds • ...

verbo + divert

Kolokacji: 4

try to divert • begin diverting • help divert • involve diverting

divert + preposición

Kolokacji: 23

divert from • diverted to • divert into • diverted for • divert in • ...

divert + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 17

illegally diverted • momentarily diverted • improperly diverted • easily diverted • temporarily diverted • ...

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) illegally, momentarily, improperly, easily, temporarily, ...

Kolokacji: 12

(2) mildly, highly, reasonably

Kolokacji: 3

1. mildly divert = łagodnie zmień kierunek mildly divert

2. highly divert = bardzo zmień kierunek highly divert

3. reasonably divert = słusznie zmień kierunek reasonably divert

If the screwball road movie about the search for a priceless antique pistol isn't half as funny as it ought to be, it is reasonably diverting.
Alas for me, it was shut on Fridays, so I had to content myself with walking around it and peering in the windows at the museum displays, which looked reasonably diverting.
In other words, we would never have heard so much about "Waterworld" if it were only "Waterworld," a reasonably diverting sci-fi film with extras who appear to be wearing rags and old car parts, that we were hearing about.
Jeremy is basically a decent, well-adjusted kid, the antithesis of Holden Caulfield, which is why "10th Grade" doesn't amount to anything more than the very accurate, reasonably diverting interior monologue of a 10th grader.
As with most of "Generations," this will speak most clearly to the already converted but still seem reasonably diverting to the neophyte.
Added together, they are reliably distracting and reasonably diverting, an insistence on fun and assertion of plenty that are the common denominators of all restaurant concepts, no matter their degree of sophistication or demographic quarry.
The review published in The Montreal Gazette stated that, although the quality deteriorates towards the end of the film, "until then it's a reasonably diverting futuristic melodrama."
But with Henry Winkler, he of the Fonz fame, as an executive producer, "Dead Man's Gun" uses some unlikely casting and an obviously lean budget to eke out some reasonably diverting entertainments.
Ending a six-season run tonight, NBC's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" enters the television record books as still another moderately successful sitcom exercise, not very innovative but reasonably diverting.
As a yarn, "Simon Magus," which opens today at the Quad Cinema, may be reasonably diverting, but the story never matches the movie's fantastic visual imagination.

(3) simply, merely

Kolokacji: 2

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