The remaining time I sit quietly and try to divert my mind.

She would read for a while, divert her mind from distressing thoughts of Gabriel.

Its contents are certain to divert Brandy's mind from her trying experience with you.

He was sent north in 1824 to divert his mind from them.

It brought him comfort by diverting his mind to a trail of wonder, and in time he slept.

As an attempt at diverting his mind to happier thoughts, this was not a success.

But now there was nothing to divert her mind from gnawing at the same worry: How long would it last?

He tried to divert his mind, but there was no way now not to think about what he shouldn't.

In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month.

He thought about death, and tried to divert his mind elsewhere.