deflect

If I was right, he would have wanted to deflect me.

She had half expected that he would deflect the question.

"What we're doing is deflecting all our energy away from problems at home."

But his wife was not to be deflected so easily.

You say you're looking for something to deflect them; I may have it.

He deflected questions about himself for a few minutes and then sat down at the table in the back.

Somehow he must have had a hand up to deflect it.

"It was clear they were trying to deflect the issue," said one American official.

The team is hoping to deflect some of the attention from him.

Otherwise he would have been difficult to deflect from working on it.

And his father, he now saw, could never be deflected from that goal.

She also wondered whether her father had done something to deflect the king.

Why yes, what better than a scientist to deflect attention from themselves.

These events should not be allowed to deflect the peace process.

Whatever the consequences might be, I had no way to deflect them.

She had but one aim, nothing would deflect her from it.

When asked about their hardest times in America, they deflect the question.

One went at her with a blade, which she deflected right easy.

On the other hand, the stories seem like a way of deflecting reality.

The hard blue ice of his eyes is enough to deflect any challenge.

Their most important asset is the way in which they can deflect light.

He brought his own hand up quickly to deflect the other man's weapon.

And his power was not enough, he could no longer deflect her blows.

But the younger man deflected him and continued to move in on me.

It was still possible he might deflect the worst of this, for the moment.